Friday, February 9, 2018

Trump wants to treat federal workers as adults using merit pay

Washington -- The White House wants to institute an incredibly novel idea: pay federal workers with an emphasis on their performance, rather than how long they may have been on the job. 

Senior officials with the Office of Management and Budget said these changes would be proposed as part of President Trump's 2019 proposed budget plan. Trump wants to use the same employer philosophy that private industry uses to compensate workers based on their efforts and performances. 

The current system pays workers based on tenure and this proposal would slow tenure-based pay raises and generate $10 billion over ten years for performance-based increases.

The actual details have not yet been made public, which is why the officials insisted on anonymity, but they said that a large part of the clerical work that has been the mainstay of the government can be automated while there will be an increasing need for information technology workers and cyber security experts.

Using performance-based pay will help the government get rid of the "dead wood" and make agencies function much better. No longer would government employees simply have to 'show up' to keep their jobs, but will actually have to do them.

It's a good thing.


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