Personnel System Remains at Issue

By: fedweek

The White House also said it is “opposed to any effort to reduce, eliminate, limit, or delay funding for DHS human resources initiatives”—the bill would provide only $3 million of the $15 million requested for the alternative DHS personnel system and would bar spending money on the system until pending litigation concerning the system is resolved. A federal appeals court last year issued an injunction against the labor relations and disciplinary and appeals parts, and the department is due to report soon to a lower court on what it has done since. The legal dispute aside, the administration said, the funding cut would hamper “recruiting, hiring, training, diversity, succession planning, and internship programs” as well as efforts to address the finding in a recent survey that DHS employees consider the department one of the worst places in government to work.