Federal Downsizing: The Administration's Management of Workforce
Reductions (Testimony, 03/02/95, GAO/T-GGD-95-108).

The Federal Workforce Restructuring Act of 1994 requires the federal
government to eliminate about 270,000 positions between 1993 and 1999.
To accomplish this downsizing without a reduction-in-force, the act
allows federal agencies to offer buyouts to employees who agree to
resign or retire by March 31, 1995.  This testimony discusses (1) the
administration's compliance with the act, including which positions are
counted toward full-time-equivalent reductions and from what baseline,
and whether savings from the reductions are being used to pay for the
Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994; (2) the targets
of workforce downsizing; and (3) how the workforce reductions are being
managed.

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 REPORTNUM:  T-GGD-95-108
     TITLE:  Federal Downsizing: The Administration's Management of 
             Workforce Reductions
      DATE:  03/02/95
   SUBJECT:  Personnel management
             Civilian employees
             Labor force
             Employee incentives
             Employee retirement plans
             Presidential budgets
             Personnel classification
             Reductions in force
IDENTIFIER:  National Performance Review
             
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