Fears of workforce reductions, budget cuts dominated 2017 after reorg EO
President Donald Trump's March executive order, a "Comprehensive Plan for Reorganizing the Executive Branch," launched a year of speculation about workforce red...
The Office of Management and Budget’s plan to reorganize the government and restructure the federal workforce isn’t a direct threat to agency employees, OMB Director Mick Mulvaney said in April. The Trump administration sees it as a way to finally recognize what Mulvaney described as a deep-seated frustration in the federal workforce: top performers are rarely rewarded for their work, while poor-performers escape with few consequences. Read the full story.
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