Finally! A way to eliminate automatic congressional pay raises!

[Dr.Phool]

But it probably won't apply to them or the chimp either. Could we apply it to Chertoff? How about Rummy?


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/03/AR2006050302344.html?referrer=email

Bill Would Prohibit Raises for Sub-Par Workers

By Stephen Barr
Thursday, May 4, 2006; Page D04

In a move that seems likely to reinvigorate debate over how best to overhaul the civil service, a key senator announced yesterday that he will introduce a bill to tighten up the government's performance-appraisal system and deny pay raises to federal employees rated as less than successful.

"Employees should receive a rigorous evaluation, and their pay should be determined based upon their performance," Sen. George V. Voinovich (R-Ohio), chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs federal workforce subcommittee, said at a breakfast forum.

Under law, federal employees who are performing poorly in their jobs can receive the January pay raise approved by Congress and the White House. Voinovich's proposal would prohibit agencies from giving annual raises and within-grade increases to employees deemed sub-par performers.

Most federal employees receive regular job evaluations, as called for by law, but Voinovich's proposal would establish an explicit requirement that every employee receive a written evaluation. The bill would prohibit pass-fail systems, which some agencies use, and would link job evaluations to agency goals and performance plans.

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[Wickerman]

1. wow, what a bad idea

You'd have to add entire new tiers of management to "rigorously evaluate" employees properly. And, to not give employees cost of living raises is stupid.

[OneBlueSky]

2. unfortunately, Members of Congress and Senators are not . . .

Civil Service employees . . . they make their own rules whenever it suits them (and in the case of pay raises, that seems to be something of an annual ritual) . . .

compare the raises that Congress has given themselves over the past ten years to the rise in the minimum wage over the same period . . .

oh, wait . . . there WAS no rise in the minimum wage over the same period . . . my bad . . .

:sarcasm:

[Dr.Phool]

3. Exactly

Remember back during the Gingrich revolution, hearing all the squawking about congress passing laws that don't apply to them.

Voinovich has always been an asshole, so this doesn't surprise me.

[aden_nak]

4. The French had a system for this back in the day.

I think it's worth adopting.