Managing Shareholder Alan Lescht was recently interviewed by Business Insider about the ongoing cuts to the federal workforce:
While [the Deferred Resignation Program] might help the government shed workers, the payout could end up being less than the severance provided in a RIF, said Alan Lescht, an employment attorney specializing in federal workers. … [Lescht] suggests workers take a “deep dive” into their job prospects before opting out.“For many people, it may turn out that the best option is to stay and fight because the government has to satisfy a lot of requirements in order to justify a firing under the RIF rules,” Lescht said. “The RIF rules are very extensive and very complicated, and it’s very likely that with the speed with which the government is moving, that they will make mistakes.”
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