DHS Last in Job Satisfaction Survey -- 'Recipe for Disaster,' Says Rep. Price

[RamboLiberal]

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/02/dhs_last_in_job.html

The President's visit today was the first time in three-and-a-half years he's been to the Homeland Security headquarters, a place whose own employees describe it as the worst place in the federal government to work.

In his meeting this afternoon with top officials, President Bush said he was very proud of the hard work of the men and women at Homeland Security.

But the results of the federal government's own survey of employee morale paints a different picture.

Of the 36 agencies surveyed, Homeland Security employees rated theirs as last: 36th in job satisfaction, 35th on leadership and 36th on results-oriented performance.

"Dysfunction equals danger," said Clark Kent Ervin, the former inspector general of the Homeland Security Department, who says the results of the survey are one more sign of serious trouble for the agency in charge of protecting America.

[struggle4progress]

1. Homeland Security leaders win broad power over civil service rules (Nov 2002)

November 21, 2002
By Brian Friel
[e-mail]

Civil service laws governing pay and promotions, job classification, collective bargaining, performance appraisals, discipline and firing will not apply to the 170,000 employees of the new Homeland Security Department under the homeland legislation approved by Congress this week ...

http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/1102/112102b1.htm


Civil Service System on Way Out at DHS
White House Wants All Agencies to Have Option of Setting Own Personnel Policies

By Christopher Lee
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, January 27, 2005; Page A01

The Bush administration unveiled a new personnel system for the Department of Homeland Security yesterday that will dramatically change the way workers are paid, promoted, deployed and disciplined -- and soon the White House will ask Congress to grant all federal agencies similar authority to rewrite civil service rules governing their employees ...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39934-2005Jan26.html

[Doctor_J]

2. Was never intended to help anyone

just another $1B cell of cronies

[Erika]

3. Homeland Security is a national joke

This isn't Hitler's Germany.

[indepat]

6. The only thing Homeland Security secures is the politicization of every agency under its purview

[babylonsister]

4. Highly recommend for ultimate disgust. This needs to be revealed. nt

[pecwae]

5. Price is my Rep.

He has a progressive record and I'm proud of his efforts.