The New NASA RIF Directive Is Now Online
New NASA RIF Directive
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Keith’s note: This new RIF directive has appeared online at NASA: https://nodis3.gsfc.nasa.gov/OPD_Docs/NID_3351_150_.pdf: NASA Interim Directive Reduction In Force (RIF) For NASA Employees – NID 3351.150 – NPD 3000.1C – Effective Date: February 11, 2025 – Expiration Date: February 11, 2026. I have embedded it below – just in case it disappears.
- a. This NASA Interim Directive (NID) implements regulations to conduct Reduction in Force (RIF), Transfer of Functions (TOF), and Furlough of more than 30 days in a manner that minimizes adverse impact on employees and limits disruption to critical Agency missions, programs, operations, and organizations, consistent with employees’ assignment and displacement rights.
- b. Management will proactively consider and evaluate the use of programs such as Voluntary Separation Incentive Program (VSIP), Voluntary Early Retirement Authority (VERA), waiver of qualifications, and retraining programs and authorities under pre-RIF actions to minimize involuntary separations.
- c. Management is responsible for planning work and organizing the workforce to achieve agency objectives within available resources. This includes assessing whether there is a surplus of employees in specific roles or locations, determining the necessary positions, their locations, and when they should be filled, abolished, or vacated. Management will decide if a RIF is necessary, due to internal factors (e.g., reorganization) or external factors (e.g., lack of funding), and when it will occur.
- d. The need to apply RIF or TOF procedures does not suspend NASA authority and responsibility to take other legitimate employee actions.
- e. All decisions will be made in accordance with applicable laws and regulations and negotiated bargaining agreements.
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Thanks Keith. You’re truly performing a public service. This NID says so much … and yet so little.
Thank you for your kind words of support.
Oh, I would so be taking this buyout right now. But I would want the figures, terms and the buyout down on contract first. 30 years ago I worked for NASA, and took a buyout. I bought the house I’m living in now with that money.
A coworker is taking the Voluntary Separation Incentive Program (VSIP) & Voluntary Early Retirement Authority (VERA). Somehow this combination will actually extend them out to April 2026. Not sure how if they’ll have to work the entire time. Though they will most likely come back as a contractor, since our division is already short handed with the current and coming work.
This NASA Interim Directive (NID) implements regulations to conduct Reduction in Force (RIF), Transfer of Functions (TOF), and Furloughs lasting more than 30 days. Does furlough include government shutdowns? Right now, this seems inevitable as it is the only card Democrats in the Senate have left to play. Could Trump use a government shutdown lasting over 30 days to terminate any federal employee?
I don’t even think Democrats have a card to play to shut government down. Remember Harry Reid found the loophole to the appropriations votes with a simple Senate majority? That was a new precedent that McConnell also used. Republicans only need the simple majority right now to pass just about anything except for laws and amendments.