“Federal government spending on temporary employees has more than quadrupled in the last decade, with health care professions seeing the largest share of the increase, according to a new report.”
“The National Employment Law Project reports that federal dollars obligated for temporary help services exploded from $323 million in 2008 to $1.7 billion in 2018. The report places the blame on the Trump administration and its “war on federal workers.” While government shutdowns, executive orders aimed at union activity and a push to revoke telework agreements and change labor agreements have been the public face of this push to remake the federal bureaucracy, a hidden aspect is the reliance on temporary staffing services to fill critical roles at agencies, particularly in health care…”
“Health care contracts for temp workers at Departments of Veterans Affairs and Defense, the Indian Health Service, the Bureau of Prisons and the Federal Occupational Health Clinics accounted for 47% of all spending on temporary employment service contracts in 2018, according to the report.” Read the full article here.
Source: Report cites dramatic uptick in government spending on temps – By Adam Mazmanian, June 19, 2019. FCW.
