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USASOC to terminate all overhires
On April 24 personnel chiefs of USASOC and subordinate commands (1SFC, etcetera) were called to an emergency meeting at HQ and informed that all overhires (approximately 70 personnel) were to be terminated and all temp/term contracted personnel were to be informed that their contracts would not be renewed. On April 25, the subordinate command HR heads met with the affected personnel and gave them the news. A confusing and contentless timeline was disseminated, based on a mid-April memo from big Army that was not revealed until April 24.The memo lays out a two-branch decision tree: Retire and take VERA/VSIP or take an unknown/possibly nonexistent reassignment (either local or Army-wide). The exact timeline was unknown to the HR reps but the DoD (not DoW) memo gave a date of March 27 for local reassignment and an end date of April 7 for the reassignment process. The HR reps had no information on the amount or timing of the VERA/VSIP except to say that they would meet with USASOC on March 26 to finalize details with a formal notice to affected personnel either later on March 26 or March 27. Overhires were urged to send in their resumes to HR chiefs for local/Army-wide reassignment consideration “soonest.”Obviously, the timeline is incredibly tight. It was implied that the VERA/VSIP election choice would be almost immediate and that electing to see what reassignment was available meant immediate rejection of the as yet unknown VERA/VSIP details (amount/timing). Today, April 26, overhire personnel are preparing resumes and awaiting the official notice.According to the HR chiefs of USASOC subordinate commands, there was no advance notice or even rumors of this action other than a Reddit thread in this same sub published on Monday, March 23, that most hadn’t even seen. Because this is not a formal RIF (overhire termination) severance pay is not authorized.Overhire personnel are “permanent” positions maintained via the annual budget process by the various commands. It can be a temporary status while a command creates a new permanent authorized position or pulls a permanent position to use elsewhere while keeping the employee as an overhire. This process is used throughout DoD to deal with surge demands (wars in Iraq/Afghanistan) or higher-level demands for new skill sets. Some USASOC overhires have worked for USASOC for up to 30 continuous years, some in overhire status since the 2011 sequester.
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