Government Executive
email It s Time to Rethink Employee Performance Management
The Trump administration’s plan to link layoffs to performance ratings is not credible because the ratings themselves are not credible.
Workforce Management Consultant
An Office of Personnel Management proposal to link layoffs to performance ratings was unexpected. If the ratings were valid, it would make sense but ratings have little credibility. Jacque Simon, speaking for the American Federation of Government Employees, was correct in saying, “There’s nothing objective about performance ratings.” Simon’s opposition is understandable; the proposal appears to be intentionally antagonistic. In the absence of badly needed changes in the way performance is managed, the proposal is not tenable.
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email Chemical Safety Board is ‘Withering Away,’ Says Environmental Group
The organization hopes the Biden administration will do more to protect workers and communities with industrial plants, but the agency says it s fully engaged in its mission.
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility released a report on Thursday, first shared with
Government Executive, about how the Chemical Safety Board has been declining
under the Trump administration. This was one of the agencies President Trump proposed to cut in his first budget request in 2017, which led to employees saying they felt “pressured” to give it higher Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey ratings, so Congress would not eliminate it (the chairperson at the time disputed that and said the ratings were due to management improvements). Trump proposed to zero out the agency’s fu