Federal Times: Severe budget cuts could force agencies to resort to the first large-scale layoffs since the 1990s. And that has many experts wondering if federal human resources staffs have the expertise to manage a major reduction-in-force (RIF).
“Running a RIF is a nightmare,” said Jeff Neal, a former federal chief human capital officer at ICF International, a consulting firm. “I will guarantee you that there are some senior HR people in government who — if they found out they had to do a really large RIF — would be incredibly worried about it.”
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