The New NASA RIF Directive Is Now Online

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.