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REF: n 5 CFR Ch 351 n 370 DM 351 |
One of the pre-RIF management actions to lessen the impact of RIF is to "stockpile" vacancies for use for employee placements. Depending upon the size/scope of the projected RIF, vacant positions within an organization may be stockpiled or all vacancies may be held pending RIF action.
To open a number of vacancies, management may consider temporarily modifying the organization's fill policy by limiting or restricting hiring or inservice placement actions pending completion of the RIF. For example, fill actions could be limited to only critical mission-essential positions or to positions where the specialized and unique skills are not available in the current work force or, a hold could be placed on all external recruitment activity or on all inservice promotion, reassignments and change to lower grade actions.
Management may also be proactive by placing employees prior to the implementation of a RIF. In some cases, a RIF may be avoided entirely by moving employees, who would otherwise have been impacted by RIF, to vacant "equivalent" positions either through noncompetitive or competitive reassignment or even by competitive promotion.
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