A Wide Assault on Pay-for-Performance
7th April 2009
Pay-for-performance, the personnel system President George W. Bush advanced in an effort to replace the traditional General Schedule wage scale, has come under tough scrutiny by federal employee unions and their allies on Capitol Hill.
My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.
But now, eight chairmen and subcommittee chairmen in the House have upped the ante and urged the Obama administration to suspend any further implementation — government-wide — of pay-for-performance.
The chairmen, all Democrats, questioned the justification for such programs in a Friday letter to Peter Orszag, director of the Office of Management and Budget.
Yeah, everybody knows that government workers get paid without reference to performance. What was Bush thinking?