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  National Speed Limits

  The government has no business talking about Green anything and promoting speed limits to 65 & 70. Cafe standards use the old lower speed limit and did not calculate ethanol fuel. The higher speed limit contributes to greatly increased green house emissions as a result of decreased mileage and increased fuel usage. If the situation was any stupider, we would open up like an Autobahn and make 1 mpg with your Prius while ...more »

  The government has no business talking about Green anything and promoting speed limits to 65 & 70. Cafe standards use the old lower speed limit and did not calculate ethanol fuel. The higher speed limit contributes to greatly increased green house emissions as a result of decreased mileage and increased fuel usage. If the situation was any stupider, we would open up like an Autobahn and make 1 mpg with your Prius while going 110 mph.

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  Remove the Ethanol out of the fuel we use

  Ethanol provides less energy by volume of any liquid fuel used in transportation. It is as bad as 26% less Mpg in an Suv with a V8 as proven by Consumer Reports. Ethanol fuel produces more bad green house emissions by volume than regular gasoline. Putting 10% more fuel on the market by going to ethanol offset with Mpg go down more than the gain was a mistake. Get all ethanol fuel out of gas, watch the Mpg go up and food ...more »

  Ethanol provides less energy by volume of any liquid fuel used in transportation. It is as bad as 26% less Mpg in an Suv with a V8 as proven by Consumer Reports. Ethanol fuel produces more bad green house emissions by volume than regular gasoline. Putting 10% more fuel on the market by going to ethanol offset with Mpg go down more than the gain was a mistake. Get all ethanol fuel out of gas, watch the Mpg go up and food prices go down. If the situation was any worse, you could write a consipiracy paper on the situation.

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  Enforce Tax Exempt Status

  Stop paying an average of 51cent on the dollar for state and fed taxes on the fuel we purchase for governement vehicles. The fed pumps billions of dollars a year into states for roads, highways, byways and bridges. Why do we pay those fees and tolls?

  Eliminate this waste, save money and pump those savings into telework, development of more efficient vehicles to use.

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  One Day Off and rotation starting from the TOP DOWN.

  One Day Off or Furlough for one day starting from the top down to military and civilians. This idea would save the Government and the U.S.A. Nation funds on a yearly basis. The idea is spreading the furlough to all Government and Military but NOT at the SAME TIME. For God sake what is this government Idea on FURLOUGH EVERY ONE AT THE SAME TIME. I am putting this on bullets for simplicity, so the idea can be escalated ...more »

  One Day Off or Furlough for one day starting from the top down to military and civilians.

  This idea would save the Government and the U.S.A. Nation funds on a yearly basis. The idea is spreading the furlough to all Government and Military but NOT at the SAME TIME. For God sake what is this government Idea on FURLOUGH EVERY ONE AT THE SAME TIME. I am putting this on bullets for simplicity, so the idea can be escalated accordingly and steps can be added or removed.

  1- Spread the furlough to Government employees and military to only one DAY (a day off without pay) but distributing the load to different employees at different time frame (not all at the same time.)

  2- Starting from the President down to the Vice-President, Congressman, Senate everybody would received a day off without pay.

  3- On the other hand, the same for all Military branches, starting from the top down, one day off without pay for generals, commanders, officers, and enlisted. Everyone will take it but not at the same time.

  4- PAY Roll has to be set up to accommodate for this day off ensuring the day is not pay accordingly to the proposal. And not like few years ago when EVERYONE was off and EVERYONE still received payment for the days off. A nice free vacation with payment included.

  5- We all need to remember, even if the president does not receive pay for one day, he is still the president with decision to make on HIS DAY OFF. And same thing with every military commander, pretty much they all giving a day off without pay but their executive officer or next in the change of command will be incharged.

  6- There is always a backup plan when 25 or 50% of an outfit organization is off duty, the other 50% takes over and performs the function of the office. As the norm when a supervisor is off the next level supervisor takes charge until current supervisor comes back.

  7- Do this for one year, equally shared to all branches of the government and military. Analyze the cost saving and if it works and does not hurt anyone, make it a proposal and mandate to future years.

  8- This also can be implemented to States Government hierarchy.

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  Probationairy Employment for Government Workers

  One of the biggest problems we have in the government is that no one can be fired... at least not legally. We should establish a probationairy period of six months, similar to most private sector employees, on all new hires, promotions, and step increases. For six months after being hired to a new position, or recieving an extra pay grade, you can be let go, no questions asked. Far too many govenment employees have ...more »

  One of the biggest problems we have in the government is that no one can be fired... at least not legally. We should establish a probationairy period of six months, similar to most private sector employees, on all new hires, promotions, and step increases. For six months after being hired to a new position, or recieving an extra pay grade, you can be let go, no questions asked. Far too many govenment employees have risen to the level of their incompetence, and are now completely useless, almost jobless, curmudgeons, that we pay insane salaries to, because we can't fire them. If you apply for and are promoted into a position you are not qualified for, you should be fired... If you can't do the job, don't apply for it... It's not rocket surgery.

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  Don't Borrow Federal Retirement Funds

  Do not allow the Treasury Department to borrow money from Federal Retirement Funds. Removing money from any fund in the TSP will result in losses and could potentially have direct impacts on retirement funds. Stating "TSP participants should have nothing to worry about" does not guarantee there will be no impact. Even if they paid back the borrowed amount plus interest, where would we get back our "earnings" for the ...more »

  Do not allow the Treasury Department to borrow money from Federal Retirement Funds. Removing money from any fund in the TSP will result in losses and could potentially have direct impacts on retirement funds. Stating "TSP participants should have nothing to worry about" does not guarantee there will be no impact. Even if they paid back the borrowed amount plus interest, where would we get back our "earnings" for the amount? We would be out that much more money in a so-called "no-risk" account.

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  Let political parties pay for political primary elections.

  Why do the taxpayers have to pay for POLITICAL primaries? We should not have to pay for anything political. I have no problem paying for an election but put everyone on the ballot. If a party wants to narrow the field let them pay for it.

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  Feds should share real estate

  Creating shared work spaces in the suburbs around the beltway for Feds, so everyone doesn't have to commute downtown EVERY day- would cut commuter subsidy costs, would GREATLY improve employee morale, and would make it easier for employees to get to work even on inclement weather days. It would be similar to the telework centers that were occupied around the NCR.

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  Adopt the S1000D standard

  Adopting the S1000D international standard for technical publications would allow the entire government to be able to share information more easily. The information, once put into a common source database, would be able to be used by whomever needed it. And once it is placed there, the need for reentering the data is not needed, threrby decreasing the costs of rewriting and reediting the work. Most major companies ...more »

  Adopting the S1000D international standard for technical publications would allow the entire government to be able to share information more easily. The information, once put into a common source database, would be able to be used by whomever needed it. And once it is placed there, the need for reentering the data is not needed, threrby decreasing the costs of rewriting and reediting the work. Most major companies have begun to adopt the standard.

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  Wasted TP!!

  Why are facilities staff throwing away rolls of toilet paper and paper towels that are not empty?

  Why do they take a trash bag with one piece of paper or a candy wrapper and throw it out! This should be common sense...if there is something that will stink or attract pests, ok- take the bag out- but one piece of paper and you can just dump the paper out and leave the bag...

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  REWARDING employees for saving money!

  The Federal Government does not provide equitable rewards for innovative thinking. In terms of rewarding people, most reward programs are designed to make the incentive for saving the government money very small. Take for instance of the change that one IRS employee made to make dependents SSNs required on the forms. After not acting on the suggestion as an idea to increase revenue, the department decided to do so ...more »

  The Federal Government does not provide equitable rewards for innovative thinking. In terms of rewarding people, most reward programs are designed to make the incentive for saving the government money very small. Take for instance of the change that one IRS employee made to make dependents SSNs required on the forms. After not acting on the suggestion as an idea to increase revenue, the department decided to do so years later. By the time the reward was given to the suggestor, the US had actually increased revenues by $14 Billion Dollars. However, the suggestor was still given the same paltry reward for his idea, limited by regulation to be no more than $25,000. However, in the world of whistle blowing (Qui Tam lawsuits), the relator can be rewarded a great deal larger sum of money, usually an amount that is about 15% of the total recovery or savings to the government. If that were the case, this suggestor would have been able to make his suggestion and receive over $2 Billion Dollars. That is a real incentive for the most innovative thinkers not only to make the best suggestions; it would also create more suggestions and would ultimately pay for itself in short order. The Federal Government could become very lean and very efficient by incentivizing those employees that are very keen to cut waste, and by attracting the type employees who can do the same in government as industry. By creating one large rewards program that covered the entire federal government instead of just each branch or agency, the oversight provided by each agency seeing the suggestions made by employees/service members across the entire government the backlog/logjam that exists in each suggestion program could be broken. For instance, I currently have several ideas that are in the Army's suggestion program that have been sitting in review for over 2 years. By the time they are decided upon they will either be overcome by events or somehow already initiated into another idea, but that would be late or possibly ineffective. Creating one "super Rewards" program across the Federal Government would reduce or eliminate all that Agency issues that some much plague the way the Federal Government does business. The Government has created so much redundancy and inefficiency the only way to eliminate it removes all the shadows each Agency casts over the wastefulness. One rewards programs with real rewards will incentivize or government to be the efficient buying machine, taxing machine and governing machine, etc., it was meant to be.

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  FREE HOMES. NO MORTGAGES. FREE FOOD FREE MEDICAL INSURANCE

  section 8 and low income housing encourages dependency and complacent behavior. Why work when you can get a house for practically free and keep collecting entitlements. ILLLEGAL squatting and unauthrized people live with a legal tenet often and this is a criminal offense since changes in family size and income are required to be reported. the section 8 system and low income housing system is a complete failure which has ...more »

  section 8 and low income housing encourages dependency and complacent behavior. Why work when you can get a house for practically free and keep collecting entitlements. ILLLEGAL squatting and unauthrized people live with a legal tenet often and this is a criminal offense since changes in family size and income are required to be reported. the section 8 system and low income housing system is a complete failure which has drained the US economy of trillions of dollars and maintained tenets in social and financial bondage. there is no incentive to leave section 8 or low income housing. why work or attend college when you can get housing for free or low cost. This encouranges drug abuse and out of wedlock births and tenet abuse by housing squatters and unauthorized people living in the units. section 8 and low income housing also reduce local taxpayers home values and create blighted neighborhoods with loud music and cars with dark windows and dirty messy yards often with dirt as a yard.. SECTION 8 and LOW INCOME HOUSING TENETS NEED TIME LIMITS of 1 to 3 years then they must be evicted from the units since they are living on free enititlements and have no incentive to Raise themselves out of the free benefits. WAKE UP AMERICA! WE ARE TRILLIONS IN DEBT and giving away FREE BENEFITS . remember that all secion 8 and low income housing authoritys are TAX FREE and you pay the costs of educating the people and their rents are susidized and food and insurance are subsidized and paid for. its like the midlle and upper class is paying triple to live, we all have to pay for everyone else.. its not fair..http://www.hud.gov/complaints/fraud_waste.cfm

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  A Trillion Dollar waste - WELFARE,section8 ,low income housing

  http://www.hud.gov/complaints/fraud_waste.cfm -section 8 and low income housing encourages dependency and complacent behavior. Why work when you can get a house for practically free and keep collecting entitlements. ILLLEGAL squatting and unauthrized people live with a legal tenet often and this is a criminal offense since changes in family size and income are required to be reported. the section 8 system and low income ...more »

  http://www.hud.gov/complaints/fraud_waste.cfm -section 8 and low income housing encourages dependency and complacent behavior. Why work when you can get a house for practically free and keep collecting entitlements. ILLLEGAL squatting and unauthrized people live with a legal tenet often and this is a criminal offense since changes in family size and income are required to be reported. the section 8 system and low income housing system is a complete failure which has drained the US economy of trillions of dollars and maintained tenets in social and financial bondage. there is no incentive to leave section 8 or low income housing. why work or attend college when you can get housing for free or low cost. This encouranges drug abuse and out of wedlock births and tenet abuse by housing squatters and unauthorized people living in the units. section 8 and low income housing also reduce local taxpayers home values and create blighted neighborhoods with loud music and cars with dark windows and dirty messy yards often with dirt as a yard.. SECTION 8 and LOW INCOME HOUSING TENETS NEED TIME LIMITS of 1 to 3 years then they must be evicted from the units since they are living on free enititlements and have no incentive to Raise themselves out of the free benefits. WAKE UP AMERICA! WE ARE TRILLIONS IN DEBT and giving away FREE BENEFITS . remember that all secion 8 and low income housing authoritys are TAX FREE and you pay the costs of educating the people and their rents are susidized and food and insurance are subsidized and paid for. its like the midlle and upper class is paying triple to live, we all have to pay for everyone else.. its not fair..http://www.hud.gov/complaints/fraud_waste.cfm

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  Savings In Fuel

  1) The government is tax exempt, furthermore the government provides billions of dollars to the states for hyways, byways, bridges and other. Why then is the government paying almost .51 cent per gallon on taxes. Enforce our Tax Exempt Status, put those saved monies back into ultra efficient vehicles and Telework Options for employees.

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  Take top 25 submissions and top 25 contributors for discussion

  I like most ideas on this website. I think that most ideas have come from somebody who is trying to do a great job at what they do. It has become so difficult to navigate through that, I have decided to take 15 minutes out of my day to dedicate to this at home on my own time. I believe that the top 25 contributors and top 25 idea submitters should be invited to bring their heads together and discuss what is really ...more »

  I like most ideas on this website. I think that most ideas have come from somebody who is trying to do a great job at what they do.

  It has become so difficult to navigate through that, I have decided to take 15 minutes out of my day to dedicate to this at home on my own time.

  I believe that the top 25 contributors and top 25 idea submitters should be invited to bring their heads together and discuss what is really important to their agency and to the federal government as a whole.

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  Eliminate Unnecessary Calibration (and cost) of Army Equipment

  The Army National Guard spends Millions (at least) administering a program (Calibration/TMDE) which tests and calibrates special equipment which otherwise sits in storage. Calibration tests are recurring and range from every 6 months to once every two years. Damage to equipment occurs mainly when being transported to and from the calibration/test facility. Equipment is moved back and forth either by hand or insured ...more »

  The Army National Guard spends Millions (at least) administering a program (Calibration/TMDE) which tests and calibrates special equipment which otherwise sits in storage. Calibration tests are recurring and range from every 6 months to once every two years. Damage to equipment occurs mainly when being transported to and from the calibration/test facility. Equipment is moved back and forth either by hand or insured parcel post to in-state or out of state labs.

  I propose that the calibration on Army equipment (pressure gauges, torque wrenches, electronic measuring devices, etc) be reduced to: 1) a determined amount of equipment that is actually regularly used for training and recurring missions, 2) equipment that would be required for immediate use in disaster response (Chemical-Biological-Radiological-Nuclear, etc detection equipment).

  All other equipment should only be calibrated prior to a reserve unit being deployed with this equipment.

  This would reduce costs:

  -charged by one part of the government to another (US Army Anniston Alabama labs charge individual states for their services)

  -assocated multiple recurring shipping costs (often insured value over $10,000)

  -reduction of required full time work force performing "busy-work" testing equipment that is not used

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  Military Publications Ordering - Add Checks & Balances

  Currently, National Guard organizations have almost unlimited access to order (offical government) publications (Equipment Technical Manuals, Training Manuals, Etc) in any quantity and with any frequency desired. This enables waste through duplicate ordering, and ordering publications not relevant to the unit's mission/equipment. Inexperienced publication system users are able to easily create erroneous massive ...more »

  Currently, National Guard organizations have almost unlimited access to order (offical government) publications (Equipment Technical Manuals, Training Manuals, Etc) in any quantity and with any frequency desired.

  This enables waste through duplicate ordering, and ordering publications not relevant to the unit's mission/equipment. Inexperienced publication system users are able to easily create erroneous massive orders which result in boxes upon boxes of irrelevant publications arriving on their doorstep.

  Many of these publications contain restricted information, and proper disposal becomes an additional cost.

  I suggest that the ordering of publications be reviewed and include visibility of order cost, as well as cross-checking publications ordered against equipment records to validate need and quantity.

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  Reduce Dual-Status Admin Job Employee Turnover Rate

  Many Military Technician (Federal Civil Service) “lower graded” jobs experience a high turnover rate. This high turnover increases training costs and reduces the organization’s productivity and continuity of operation. The main cause of turnover is due to the incumbent being hired to a greater paying position within the organization. I suggest removing the “Dual-Status” designation for these positions (mainly WG-05 through ...more »

  Many Military Technician (Federal Civil Service) “lower graded” jobs experience a high turnover rate. This high turnover increases training costs and reduces the organization’s productivity and continuity of operation.

  The main cause of turnover is due to the incumbent being hired to a greater paying position within the organization.

  I suggest removing the “Dual-Status” designation for these positions (mainly WG-05 through WG-07, GS-05 ), such as supply clerks, production controllers (in the equipment maintenance arena) to allow for dedicated civilians to apply for these positions. With a minimal amount of training, these positions can be filled by “off-the-street” civilians (with proper background checks, etc) who would not constantly be looking at higher graded positions within the system (since the other positions are all “Dual-Status” ).

  This will also provide for essential continuity when “Dual-Status” employees from the organization are deployed, away on military training, etc.

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  http://governmentreform.ideascale.com/a/dtd/120084-13060

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  Raise the Estate Tax to 90%

  Inherited wealth kills capitalism. A capitalist society is one in which, if you work hard, and produce high quality work, you will get paid well... If you don't, you won't. While the country is deep in debt, the people we look to first to help us solve this problem, should be, the people creating it... People who don't work, and inherit enough money to survive and thrive forever. The estate tax doesn't even begin to ...more »

  Inherited wealth kills capitalism. A capitalist society is one in which, if you work hard, and produce high quality work, you will get paid well... If you don't, you won't. While the country is deep in debt, the people we look to first to help us solve this problem, should be, the people creating it... People who don't work, and inherit enough money to survive and thrive forever. The estate tax doesn't even begin to be charged unless you inherit more than 2.5 million dollars from your family. Capitalism protects earned wealth, and it protects people that want to help their family have a better life than they did. It does not protect unearned wealth, it does not protect European style arristocratic inherited wealth. You are not born, having done all the work you need to do. No one would be happy if they were born that way. Raising the estate tax to 90%, on people being paid more than 2.5 million dollars to be born, would generate enough revenue to slowly but surely pay down the national debt. It's that simple. You can't be against welfare, and for lowering the estate tax, they create the same thing, unearned wealth. Unearned wealth is the enemy. It makes everyone miserable.

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  Ceased vehicles distributed to GOV agencies first, sold next

  Assign all ceased vehicles to Gov agencies instead of selling them for profit. First priority of every ceased vehicle should be to go to the field for use by any/all Gov agency then if deemed unfit for use can be sold for profit. Federal Agents and other Law Enforcement personnel are being forced to drive vehicles with well over 100K miles and have just been informed that there is no money for replacements any time soon. ...more »

  Assign all ceased vehicles to Gov agencies instead of selling them for profit. First priority of every ceased vehicle should be to go to the field for use by any/all Gov agency then if deemed unfit for use can be sold for profit. Federal Agents and other Law Enforcement personnel are being forced to drive vehicles with well over 100K miles and have just been informed that there is no money for replacements any time soon.

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  No raises for Fed Contractors when Fed Empl don't get raises

  As a Federal Employee I am sympathetic to the rest of the country’s economic situation and have taken the 2 year cut on our Cost of Living increase with a grain of salt, knowing ultimately we’re helping out in a small way. But I feel it is a slap in the face when the contractors in my office are granted raises because their contracts state they are entitled to receive it. Why aren’t there clauses in Federal Labor ...more »

  As a Federal Employee I am sympathetic to the rest of the country’s economic situation and have taken the 2 year cut on our Cost of Living increase with a grain of salt, knowing ultimately we’re helping out in a small way. But I feel it is a slap in the face when the contractors in my office are granted raises because their contracts state they are entitled to receive it.

  Why aren’t there clauses in Federal Labor Contracts that state, “When Federal Employees do not receive a Cost of Living increase an increase in pay rate will not be given to Federal Contractors”? If we all work together and in the same boat, shouldn’t we all have to bail water? This clause should be mandatory on all Federal Contracts and not be up to the COR or Agency to dictate.

  The amount of money saved would be at least in the millions and possibly comparable to the savings of not granting Cost of Living increases to Federal Employees.

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  Inmate abuse of chow hall

  Inmates will complain to your face about how disgusting food is in the prison chow hall but yet when your down there they go back in line for a second and third helping. A way to cut costs is to have the inmates use their id's and scan them when they go through the chow line. The list will refresh for every meal and once youve gone through the first time thats it, saving taxpayers thousands. We already have food service ...more »

  Inmates will complain to your face about how disgusting food is in the prison chow hall but yet when your down there they go back in line for a second and third helping. A way to cut costs is to have the inmates use their id's and scan them when they go through the chow line. The list will refresh for every meal and once youve gone through the first time thats it, saving taxpayers thousands. We already have food service staff standing in line making sure portion control and lack of contraband being passed along. Why not have them check id's after they have been scanned to make sure they are the same person whos on the card? It would be added security for the system and it will keep the inmates accountable.

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  Extend the life of the PRINTER – no refreshing in 3 years

  Extend the life of the PRINTER – no refreshing in 3 years is needed. The life spam on printers is actually measured by the amount of printouts the printer do in its life, and not because the printer is 3 years old and it needs to be replaced. YOU CAN ENVEN doubled this timeframe, and save cost for the office, the government and the tax payers. For example high-end and network printers has a life spam of 500,000 printouts, ...more »

  Extend the life of the PRINTER – no refreshing in 3 years is needed.

  The life spam on printers is actually measured by the amount of printouts the printer do in its life, and not because the printer is 3 years old and it needs to be replaced. YOU CAN ENVEN doubled this timeframe, and save cost for the office, the government and the tax payers.

  For example high-end and network printers has a life spam of 500,000 printouts, this is approximately 100,000 per year for a total of 5 years. This is assuming the offices print 8350 pages per months. The printer even could last longer that the specified life spam stated by the manufacture. Parts can be replaced, and if the cost of repair exceed 40% of the cost of the printer, then it would not be economical to repair.

  On another note, on today’s economy saving there is no need to print as mush as in the way we used to 5 or 10 years ago.

  Save energy, do less waste, go paperless and save tax payers money

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  Stop printing T-n-A and other doc-file them online.

  Instead of printing any Time and Attendance (TnA) document, some time even 3 sheets time 3 or 4 times (for distribution), adding any SF71 to it.... Do them electronically, store them and process them online. Some organization has and can process them via the mainframe financial institution or online secure services. There is no need to print them out, they all can be processed, verified and certified ELECTRONICALLY; ...more »

  Instead of printing any Time and Attendance (TnA) document, some time even 3 sheets time 3 or 4 times (for distribution), adding any SF71 to it.... Do them electronically, store them and process them online.

  Some organization has and can process them via the mainframe financial institution or online secure services.

  There is no need to print them out, they all can be processed, verified and certified ELECTRONICALLY; here is the amount an employee can print every 2 weeks:

  1- One copy for the employee,

  2- Make another copy for the supervisor

  3- And then another for the Admin or budget person to verify the entries.

  4- If there is one error the cycle starts again, and you end up 2 or 3 time the initial amout printed originally.

  ONE PERSON could generate 12 sheets or more just for each pay period (this assuming there is no mistake and the forms need to be printed again).... you can do the numbers, if you have 1000's employees.

  Save more,,,,do less waste... Lets go paperless….

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  Shutdown between Christmas and New Year's holidays

  Close Agencies and Departments for the working days between the Christmas day holiday and New Year's day holiday. Provide employees with the option of taking vacation or unpaid leave during this shutdown.

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