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DHS Personnel Regulations
Updated Oct. 2, 2009 |
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DHS 2010 Funding Measure Deals MaxHR Another Blow
The fiscal 2010 homeland security appropriations bill signed into law by
President Obama contains yet another prohibition preventing the Department
of Homeland Security (DHS) from moving ahead with a personnel system that
would undercut and erode employees’ workplace rights.
“As we did in the last fiscal year, we are pleased to have successfully
secured language preventing any funding in fiscal 2010 for implementation
of DHS’s discredited personnel system, once known as MaxHR,”
said NTEU President Colleen M. Kelley.
It was NTEU which led the successful fight—in both the federal courts
and with Congress—to turn back efforts begun under the previous administration
to impose a regressive new personnel system, with the clear intention of
spreading such systems throughout the federal government. DHS has said it
has no intention to revive this program, but Congress has not yet repealed
authority for it. More
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