Return to Article: Report: Agencies lack staff, resources to run job competitions
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It doesn't take a bright boy in the White House to know that when you outsource your agency employees, you don't have a work force, so you have to go to contracting and you don't get the extra effort, or one more nice thing to do on this project, from the contractor that you would get from the employees.
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Don't even tell me that we are going to have to contract out the contracting process and still consider this fair.
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So, it looks like the government must get top-heavy again to oversee a reduction of jobs. Typical, huh?
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In another typical GAO Report, using selective agency quotes, the GAO finds that agencies lack the staff and financial support necessary to run effective public-private job competitions. Asserting that, because agencies have only 2 or three Departmental program managers, agencies cannot properly conduct competitions is like suggesting that because there are only x number of teachers, we aren't doing enough to prevent crime. GAO makes the assertion without, apparantly, looking at the Federal resources being committed to individual competitions on a part-time or full time basis or the contract resources agencies have committed to assist those competitions. Instead highlignting the problems in the Revised Circular and its (GAO's) responsibilities to ensure equity of access for employees and unions to the appeal process, GAO seeks to make the argument that agencies are short-changing the process. Sad, very sad.
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