REDUCTION IN FORCE

REDUCTION IN FORCE . . . RETENTION REGISTERS

Department of Defense, National Guard Bureau, Tennessee Air National Guard, Nashville, Tennessee and Music City Chapters, Association of Civilian Technicians, Case No. 01 FSIP 55, June 4, 2001 (Release No. 440).

The AGENCY proposed that the retention register be established in accordance with the current retention policy, which ranks employees for RIF purposes based on performance appraisal scores.

The UNION proposed the following:

Section 20-3 D: Retention Registers:

A record that lists technicians in descending order, within their competitive levels, starting with the technician with the most points. They shall be classified on a retention register on the basis of their tenure of employment, length of service and performance in descending order as follows: 1. By tenure Group I, Group II, and Group III, and 2. Within each group by years of service as augmented by credit for performance beginning with the earliest service date (Service, Computation Date). Tiebreaker will be the (3) three latest performance appraisals. Outstanding receives two (2) points; fully acceptable will receive one (1) point; and unsatisfactory, zero points.

The PANEL ordered the parties to adopt the following:

Section 20-3 D: Retention Registers:

A record that lists technicians in descending order, within their competitive levels, starting with the technician with the most points. Technicians shall be classified on a retention register on the basis of their tenure of employment, performance, length of service, and the descending order as follows:

1. By tenure Group I, Group II, and Group III, and
2. Within each Group, add the points obtained based on the following criteria, to obtain a RIF Order of Merit List (OML). Add the points obtained in (a) and (b) for a RIF score: (a) The average score of the points of the last three (3) official performance appraisals: Unsatisfactory equals zero points; fully satisfactory equals four (4) points; and outstanding equals eight (8) points. (b) One (1) point for each year of the service computation date. (c) RIF actions would be performed on the lowest scores from this OML. (d) The tiebreaker will be the employee with the earliest technician service date.