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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So what if you have 20 years but just moved to a new agency?  Are you still considered senior at the new agency for rif purposes?  After a very long run at my old agency I switched to one of the ones on the chopping block and am concerned.  [/quote]

OPM runs the RIF process. First, however, the agency usually runs a VERA/VSIP. Then there is an org analysis. Individuals cannot be targeted for reduction, but positions are. Everyone that might be affected by a RIF in an organization must create a RIF resume, which is like a federal resume BUT EVEN MORE DETAILED. Then basically everyone gets to compete for the positions that remain, in order of federal seniority+vet preference. So if they decide that a bunch of 15's are being eliminated, those 15s may end up taking remaining 14 and 13 slots, bumping the people in those positions, and so on and so on. If based on the RIF resume it appears that a 13 can do a 9's job with some retraining, then that 9 gets bumped if they have less seniority, etc. You don't really get much time to accept the new position, and if you decline then you can get let go with no severance I believe.

And then at the end of the year+ long process you have some number of people that will get separated with severance, with CTAP and ICTAP preference. Severance is based on time in service, and is paid out to you like salary, which means that you continue to get paid for some period of time while you apply for other federal jobs. But everyone that got RIFed at my last agency ended up with new positions even before the RIF completed. Understood that this will be less likely this time around unless folks are willing to be Border Patrol.

It's really a long, exhausting, demoralizing process, and I have no idea how OPM will manage to run RIFs across a large number of agencies all at once. But the chaos is the point.[/quote]

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