Trump Workforce Plan Gets Mixed Reviews From Federal Employees

Feb. 9, 2018, 4:03 PM UTC

President Donald Trump’s plan to make it easier to reward top-performing federal employees and fire poor performers is eliciting contrary responses from federal executives and front-line federal workers.

The president also is proposing a new workforce fund that would be used to recruit and retain high performers in critical fields such as information technology. That’s according to a preview of the administration’s fiscal year 2019 budget request offered by officials with the White House Office of Management and Budget.

“If this is accurate, the Senior Executives Association will be very supportive,” SEA President Bill Valdez told Bloomberg Law Feb. 9. ...

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