ROME, N.Y. — “DFAS, Rome, basically has a 15% attrition rate, so you’re talking 150 people, that’s 210 people throughout a year period, so you’re down to 800 or so people. Now they’ve offered a secondary deferred retirement plan for people,” said Ed Abounader, head of the union for all five Defense Finance and Accounting Service sites.
Just days ago, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth signed a memo reopening the program: an early retirement and a deferred resignation program open to nearly all Dept. of Defense civilian workers.
Abounader is currently in Washington, D.C., playing a game of chess in order to try to avoid the two words no one wants to hear.
“I think the term they use is ‘mission failure.’ You just don’t have enough people. That’s why I’m here, trying to be able to move people around,” said Abounader. “The problem is, you have good people; you just don’t have enough of them to do the job.”
And they’re not just up against the retirement and resignation incentives and the attrition rate.
“The problem ends up is, it coincides with a hiring freeze,” said Abounader.
Abounader hopes once the particulars are released in the next day or so, there will be some hope.
“Hopefully we can tread water until there’s a decision on releasing the hiring freeze or allowing us to backfill the people who take the early retirement,” he said.
“DFAS, Rome, basically has a 15% attrition rate, so you’re talking 150 people, that’s 210 people throughout a year period, so you’re down to 800 or so people. Now they’ve offered a secondary deferred retirement plan for people,” said Ed Abounader, head of the union for all five Defense Finance and Accounting Service sites.
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