Federal RIFs under current Shutdown.

Reminder for Anons and a heads-up for newcomers:

This government shutdown was not planned, at the outset, to go beyond 30 days. It was prompted by and can be ended through legislative action and so is not treated like a departmental or agency cost-saving interruption instigated and planned by a federal agency. Reduction in force (RIF) does not apply during the current partial government shutdown.

See advisory published: January 22, 2019:

“Reductions in force (RIF) furlough regulations and SES competitive furlough requirements are not applicable to emergency shutdown furloughs because the ultimate duration of an emergency shutdown furlough is unknown at the outset and is dependent entirely on Congressional action, rather than agency action,” it says. “The RIF furlough regulations and SES competitive furlough requirements are only applicable to planned, foreseeable, money-saving furloughs that, at the outset, are planned to exceed 30 days.”

https://www.fedweek.com/fedweek/length-of-furlough-doesnt-trigger-rif-policies-says-opm/

>>4867589

https://www.fedweek.com/reports/shutdowns-furloughs-what-you-need-to-know/

>>4867678

Yeh, there has been much talk about such a possibility. I think it comes down to a moar narrow scope of action: eliminate certain positions with or without adhering to established rules (in some cases there is considerable gray area) and, if necessary eventually, say "sorry" later.

Get what you need done now and worry about details of consequences after the fact, is probably a more selective approach than the general guidance would suggest possible.

Still the general stands as general guidance.

>>4867605

Notable speculation, Anon. Very Interdasting.

TY

Would add that positioning comes in different flavors. And the goal is to leverage your competition's current position (in the landscape of the public's mind, or in the view of your target audience) and create room around that position.

The room you create – again in the public's mind – may place your competitor closer to the margins, if that is advantageous to your competitive strategy, or closer to the "has-been" status or, in contrast, closer to the "tried and failed" status. These are just examples.

When you create that space you can manipulate the competitor(s) to occupy some of it so that you can dominate other parts of the "new space". It can be like a game of musical chairs – some loses but most survive in new positions. If you play the tune, you control the game. But this is how you eliminate or marginalize competitors who scramble amongst themselves. They position themselves against you – as you create a different playing field – in the public's mind.

Here Trump has dominated the shutdown competition by embracing the shutdown as necessary rather than as a hot potato. Necessary because the wall is necessary, see? Not necessary just because I say so and that is my "position". He has occupied a position that was abandoned by his competition. And then he has gobbled up their old position – as well as their more recent position (i.e. embracing as necessary the major items on Pelosi's list of "must-haves").

She keeps winning one of the available chairs just before the music stops, but it is not the chair she really can use to win overall. She has done this to herself, as her own followers are acknowledging. Some have acknowledge this by celebrating hr as "badass" or whatnot. Others are already coaxing her to negotiate the wall rather than holding fast to her "no wall" position. That is a hill that the Dems really can not afford to die on. And politics is very much about getting the possible done and living to fight another day, right?

What happens when a sufficient amount of elected Dems find it their advantage to form a smaller coalition that will have disproportionate share of power in a Dem majority House? Tht majority's power becomes contingent non that small coalition, if that coalition remains cohesive within its own limited ranks.

None of this is new to federal politics. IT is an old theme. See the earlier point about leverage current positions of your competitors.

>>4867633

Meet their newest addition? Her child is with her already. Or as we once said in olden times, she is with child.