{"id":8910,"date":"2013-05-26T09:00:14","date_gmt":"2013-05-26T13:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=8910"},"modified":"2013-05-26T02:08:18","modified_gmt":"2013-05-26T06:08:18","slug":"why-its-difficult-to-fire-american-government-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/why-its-difficult-to-fire-american-government-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"Why It\u2019s Difficult To Fire American Government Employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/052613_0604_WhyItsDiffi1.jpg\" width=\"639\" height=\"357\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Michael Catalini took a look at why the government is finding it difficult to fire Lois Lerner, an official who admitted that the IRS targeted conservative groups:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Americans laws have been set up so that politicians can&#8217;t interfere with government posts. This is to prevent precisely the kind of controversy that the IRS is embroiled in today.<\/li>\n<li>However the laws may be a little too effective. Workers in many government agencies are more likely to die of natural causes than to lose their jobs.<\/li>\n<li>To fire a government employee requires a fair amount of paperwork and managers generally just don&#8217;t want to go through the hassle.<\/li>\n<li>However this creates perverse incentives \u2013 government employees know that it&#8217;s unlikely they&#8217;ll lose their jobs and this may lead them to underperform.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the 1883 legal framework that affects the employment of government employees, and why taxpayers should be concerned over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/politics\/why-is-it-so-hard-to-fire-a-low-performing-government-employee-20130524\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/politics\/why-is-it-so-hard-to-fire-a-low-performing-government-employee-20130524\">National Journal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Catalini took a look at why the government is finding it difficult to fire Lois Lerner, an official who admitted that the IRS targeted conservative groups: Americans laws have been set up so that politicians can&#8217;t interfere with government posts. This is to prevent precisely the kind of controversy that the IRS is embroiled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/052613_0604_WhyItsDiffi1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8910"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8913,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8910\/revisions\/8913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}