DHS Personnel Officer Resigns as Dept. Tackles Crucial Workplace Issues

WP: DHS Personnel Officer Resigns as Department Tackles Crucial Workplace Issues
By Stephen Barr
Tuesday, May 30, 2006; Page D04

The top personnel officer at the Department of Homeland Security, on the job about eight months, has resigned and will leave June 9, a department spokesman said.

K. Gregg Prillaman , who has more than 30 years of experience in personnel and management issues, had been tapped to oversee an ambitious revision of pay scales and workplace rules at Homeland Security, which has about 185,000 employees.

His departure is another jolt to the department, which has been coping with turnover in its senior executive ranks. "I was surprised by his resignation," said Michael Jackson , deputy secretary for Homeland Security. "He had done some good work for us. He just made a decision to make a change, and that was his call."...

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Prillaman's departure comes as the department wrestles with a series of critical workplace issues. A lawsuit brought by federal unions has blocked new rules that would curtail union rights and an appeals court ruling could come within the next few weeks. The House has voted to take money from the department's management account and shows little interest in providing funds to develop a new personnel system. And the merger of 22 agencies into Homeland Security, although three years old, continues to drain employee morale.

The department is behind its original schedule for changing how employees will be paid, deployed and disciplined. Officials now hope to introduce a new pay-for-performance system in February 2007 and continue in phases through 2008....

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...I found the problem.

""I was surprised by his resignation," said Michael Jackson , deputy secretary for Homeland Security."

Michael Jackson is the Deputy Secretary for Homeland Security, I wonder if he knew the Homeland Security guy that was arrested for meeting an underage girl for sex?

Bow to the power of Google.

thats the sound of the joke going right over your head....

Sorry.

to apologize, its all good.

"Who would ever have expected that our weak point would be competence?" That was someone like Newtie commenting on Smirk and his incompetent thugs.

Least competent administration ever.

UNIONS)---the battle continues!

....Prillaman's departure comes as the department wrestles with a series of critical workplace issues. A lawsuit brought by federal unions has blocked new rules that would curtail union rights and an appeals court ruling could come within the next few weeks. The House has voted to take money from the department's management account and shows little interest in providing funds to develop a new personnel system. And the merger of 22 agencies into Homeland Security, although three years old, continues to drain employee morale.