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Sunday, August 7, 2011
Things have been going well in the first two months since Transportation Department administrators won the Highways and Transportation commissioners’ approval to “rightsize” the department’s operations, commissioners were told last week.
Chief Engineer Dave Nichols — MoDOT’s No. 2 administrator — explained: “When you approved the ‘Bolder 5-Year Direction’ plan (in June), we began implementation immediately. ...
One-fourth of all the cuts are expected to affect the Jefferson City area, between reductions at MoDOT‚s Central Office and at the Central District office, 1515 Missouri Blvd.
Throughout the state, MoDOT employees are being re-interviewed for positions in the re-organized department.
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redenamel 1 year, 9 months ago
Of course it's going well for MoDOT management. They still have their $90,000 and up jobs.
Ask everyone else how well it's going. It's ugly, it's heartless, it's unethical, and it's walking a thin legal line !!
Employee input has been thrown out - all decisions come from management. Human resource policies are declared void or valid at management's discretion. Everyone's job will be affected, no one will be free of the pain. Every employee is subject to losing their present job - you need to re-apply for your job, and if management decides not to reappoint you to it, your job will be posted or eliminated. If it's posted, anyone can apply for it and go through interviews to compete for your job. If you don't win any open positions, you will be demoted and subject to transfer to anywhere in the state in any job that management chooses, or laid off. And even if you still have a job up to that point, you are still subject to layoff when March 2013 comes if the magic headcount hasn't been reached. Not to mention that as positions open up in the future, you will still be subject to transfers and layoff if you refuse the transfers.
Those eligible for retirement are being indirectly pressured to retire. If you don't retire before you're demoted, your vacation payout at retirement will be based on your demoted salary instead of your present higher salary. There's no offers of voluntary retirement incentive or severance pay. Longevity and good work history are not factors for retaining you.
Management can freely choose their favorite people and expel who they don't like (the good-old-boy system) with no fear of consequences for abusing human resources written policies.
There will be no call backs after layoffs. Management plans to keep the 5100 level permanently regardless of new funding. If money comes in, work that can't be handled by the reduced workforce will be outsourced.
This is only scratching the surface. There are a lot more slimy things going on.
The Senate Governmental Accountability Committee is scheduled on Aug 15 to determine if some of MoDOT's strategies can be applied to other state agencies in the Senate's efforts to restructure and refine state government. NON-MODOT STATE EMPLOYEES - better start fighting now, or you could soon be the next victims.
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