@RepCummings @GerryConnolly @RepLynch Request @usgao Study To Further Enhance Effectiveness of Fed Workforce
Washington, D.C. (Mar. 27, 2014)—Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Rep. Stephen Lynch, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, U.S. Postal Service, and the Census, and Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Government Operations, sent a letter requesting that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) study federal employee engagement and recommend steps the federal government can take to improve it.
“The last few years have been challenging for federal employees,” the Ranking Members wrote. “They have endured a three-year pay freeze, unpaid furloughs, and a government shutdown. Stakeholders, including federal employee organizations, have noted that federal workers have become increasingly dissatisfied with their employment, and that this may be compromising the federal government’s ability to serve the American people.”
Their letter requests that GAO assess the morale and effectiveness of the federal workforce, including recruitment and retention, performance and productivity, the achievement of agency missions, the extent to which the Office of Personnel Management helps agencies improve employee engagement, and lessons to be learned from agencies that have significantly improved employee engagement.
Click here to read the full letter.
Push em…push em….push em and when they’ve had enuf the layoffs will happen! All you hapless PSE converts to career are in for a rude awakening courtesy of your APWU.
Speaking from a postal point of view, its amazing how the “people” in management feel it necesary to abuse and scream at and try to humiliate employees in an effort to make workers improve their productivity. This has a complete opposite effect. No one works hard for someone who treats you like garbage , thus creating a hostile work atmosphere and poor moral. It creates an endless cycle.its unfortunate that this is the type of system that is backed by local ditricts and regional districts all the way up to washington. To go through the charade of a useless study is wasteful and shows managements ineptitude. Hopefully the recent letters to various newspapers on the treatment of employees at the usps will shed some light on this ongoing problem. The fact that the public will get some insight on postal mis-management and mistreatment will help the cause. Usps management tries to spin these problems so they arent made public. You want workers working more pruductivly then it all starts with respect and civil treatment of your employees
Morale??? The most overpaid and underworked have nothing to do but whine. Pay Freeze?? How about the millions Obama-nomics had lose their jobs?
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
The whole Republican Congressional agenda is to use federal employees as their whipping boys, take away as many jobs and benefits from them as possible, privatize anything they can, and destroy the public employee unions.
No wonder the Fed Times just reported that only 3% of new college business majors indicated they would even consider working for the fed govt as an employer. Then Obama says he wants to make it cool again, to work in public service. Three year pay freeze, then a 1% raise that doesn’t even cover inflation and what you lost. His budget director still saying the “chained COLA” is still on the table? Constantly raising the employee retirement contributions (in effect, a pay cut). Good luck with that.
Fed employees feel like they have been beaten down like dogs, and not valued. If these Congressmen need yet another study to figure this out (and some of them are the good guys) then they really haven’t been listening to their constituents.
Morale? What kind of morale would you expect them to have? Worry about postal reform and let the chips fall as they may.
Why don’t you all work on Postal reform knuckle heads!