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TSA Airport Screeners Leaving in Large Numbers

Stephen Losey writes in the Federal Times:

More than one out of five airport screeners quit their jobs last year, according to a new report by the Transportation Security Administration.

The attrition rate of 21.2 percent was slightly above the 2006 rate of 20.9 percent, TSA said. But that is still less than the 23.7 percent attrition rate TSA recorded in 2005, the first year it implemented its new pay-for-performance system, called the Performance Accountability and Standards System.

The National Treasury Employees Union said today that the report shows TSA is in trouble, and called on Congress to investigate how PASS may be affecting attrition.

"With roughly 8,000 of the approximately 40,000-member TSA work force leaving each year, TSA is incurring astronomical and unnecessary costs of training and retaining, recruiting and hiring and loss of productivity due to this revolving door," NTEU President Colleen Kelley said in a statement. "It is alarming that such a critical work force is in a constant state of flux."

posted by Fergie @ 6/09/2008 09:38:00 PM