Employee Meeting - NRC

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aggressively hiring more employees.
places where we need to fill spaces.
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We're certainly hiring in the
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There are particular areas where we need to fill spaces
because people have retired and we need to replace them. You know,
we need to maintain a certain set of employees to deal with our
operating reactors. We need to have a certain set of employees to
deal with decommissioning issues, you know. So, we need to maintain
a certain suite of expertise, and when that expertise leaves the Agency,
we do need to replace it.
Did you want to add anything, Mark? Okay.
Go ahead.
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QUESTIONER:
This question is for the Chairman.
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Have you given feedback to OMB, OPM, and our oversight committees
about the negative effects of pay freezes and furloughs on staff morale
and accelerated retirements?
CHAIRMAN MACFARLANE: I haven't gotten recent
data on this issue. We're waiting to get, I think it's the most recent
survey results, back from the rest of the government to see what the
actual data says.
You know, I suspect that it doesn't make it -- you know,
the current situation, the sequestration, the pay freeze, the pay raise
freeze, you know, the lack of bonuses, now the government shutdown,
you know, it doesn't make it pleasant to be a government worker.
And I certainly didn't understand that before I came to
this Agency, but, you know, I see how hard all of you work and how
much dedication you all have to the Agency and to the mission. And