European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 12, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Mah eater stories by Brooks Jackson associated hard to hire sluggish Federal hiring procedures Are adding to the woes of tens of thousands sick workers seeking disability reportedly driving some of them to the Brink of their checks Are being delayed an average of three to tour extra months because of a huge backlog of bid although funds Are available to hire 106 new administrative Law judges to help Cut Down the the civil service Mill has been unable to Supply enough approved applicants to fill the it typically takes Ivi months to fill a vacancy in the Federal government with an outside and delays of seven or eight months Are not according to evil service there Are cases in which Federal managers say they have been prevented from hiring highly qualified applicants who wanted us the Case at the despondent disability claimants was explained in an interview with Robert Lead of the social Security administrations appeals 640 judges who work for Trachtenberg decide appeals each year from persons who have in denied social Security disability the Ages eventually Rule in favor of about half the apply about persons a All of them sick to me degree and out of work for at least five months Ore their appeals even Are eventually found to legally disabled and entitled to but in of meantime these disabled workers must live relatives or welfare White waiting for Trach Ibergs judges to decide their it is a Fraser aug and depressing experience Tor would like to have a dime a every time pm got a Call from a claimant to about to  k used to take an average of 350 Days to decide a by an better now because judges Are using Legal As Lanta and automated increasing output m 13 cases per judge per month to More than pm it still lakes 1m Days to decide the average Okhtenberg says it should take Only and because of eve increasing Load of appeals by persons seeking Carters Hopes for Reform p resident Carter is considering package of proposals that would nuke it easier to replace inf Kent top service be needs a the government work among the options reportedly under review is a of the process by which Federal workers can Appeal firings or demotions for months and years Tiff Guilone bureaucratic layer after aay final  make Incaby powered Federal labor t bans Over Bat therms my Midas also Are due disability the average decision Lime has begun to creep Back upward in the last couple of Trachtenberg decided be needed to hire 105 new bid hiring procedures dont allow him to recruit directly applications and examinations Are conducted by the civil service Trachtenberg put in a request for applicants to the commission last so far nos received Only 31 ii took 22 Days to get a Register of qualified applicants from the but the Register contained Only 89 Trachtenberg wanted to hire so i was in the Hole of those on the 20 already had been hired or they had turned Down Job offers in the and Trachtenberg says that Only 38 of the remaining prospects will accept offers to work for other Federal executives also say their eff Clency is lessened by their inability to hire the people they the Public relations chief of a Large Federal who asked not to be has been trying since last september to fill a vacancy but cannot get the civil serv ice commission to Send him anyone he considers to be they tried to Force one Guy on me who they said was better qua tied than any it was a Guy i bad wed been fired fran me Agency after another for the he said the jobs the Man had lost had been political appoint not subject the civil service tenon thai makes firing very if some jobs go begging for want of qualified apply executives say their ii efficiency is lessened by their inability to hire the people they which they see a too  and loaded in managements the recommendations now said to be under review if Carter proposes them and Congress would convert the  bureaucrats to a new senior executive with salary bonuses for outstanding performers and in Stant demotions or transfers for sow e Force Middle level managers to earn Ihler nay raises getting them almost Autoro Auckly a they e effectively scale Down future pay raises for use clerical Anklet re Tartol workers who now receive higher pay than h e give consideration to the relatively generous Rece Ved by Federal employees webs received by Federal Lions to Pouv pay to Levels comparable with private who want a Page 10 the stars and stripes these proposals Are in addition to a rental int two putting personnel management functions inside february some highly qualified people had 1 hired one such person is who lost two Federal jobs 1 personnel Jones is not his real he ask Mous so that his present employer thai lie had been seeking other he Bill years experience As a newspaper and r in the United Stales and in several cow has written two books and served As i Rector for a major National the veterans administration offered j Latsons Job on the basis of his experience i but civil service officials f later the Isle Maunal Trade Contr him a and unanimously voted unit for the again he was the civil service commission sent saying he was blocked because the Corn was less qualified for the Job than some i Mart Public relations officials who another major criticism of Fht that the Strong preference Given to lessens the urine Oporta Julei Tor and tip level management hiring in the Federal government 1st done on the basis of with Appu written tests and hired from Usta Otlee by military veterans gel prefer hiring and any Veteran who of score on a hiring lest gets five Points i disabled Veta get 10 Points and Auto top of the hiring lists As Wei when considering Usta of an cannot pass Over a Veteran to i vet without justifying the decision in military pensioners also qualify for because percent of vets Are i tends to keen oat veterans pref not Only to disabled Vietnam vets but to served decades ago and who never heard i the jobs in the Federal government and the High paving Are filled by the civilian workforce is 22 percent according to a civil service c eliminating All prefer the number of women on firing uses fir i professional jobs by to retail Point preference for disabled rets the other veterans advantages women chances of being hired by 1 veterans groups argue that veterans consider Alloa for their wartime and have proven loyalty to the Twy Nave a proven track record of in said William Sheehan of the veterans of i he group opposes any reduction in a prefer the presidents office and creating a new panel designed to hear grievances and to forbidden practices As political patrol agent splitting the civil service con Niston under Carters authority to Reorg Ante subject to congressional most proposals would have to be approved by Oon the president is scheduled to unveil Bis i of proposals in preliminary briefing late year that moving in the right direction with be Carter bees a Duoc huh chs Era work Force la highly Veteran to brain i a fro of use world War which they civil service commission vice chairman Man said in an interview that the key to the i the streamlining of the appeals wac Cally take in months to resolve a disputed i Tion or pay we want to give the employee a fair t same Lime managers  be overturned one proposal would prohibit managers from i