Vulnerable communities

There are a number of classes of workers whose futures are at risk in the next couple of years. The risks are imposed by budgetary constraints and by NNSA's complex 2030 plan.

Some of these classes are:

1. People nearing retirement and not needed for the 2030 vision.

- Many of these people have never competed for a job and appear to only have classified work, about which they cannot talk, on their resume.

2. Young staff members

- With the future of the Lab and its funding uncertain, for a number of young staff members, the certainty of long term employment has disappeared.

3. Post docs

- It is easy to save costs in the short term but cutting funds to post docs. This appears to be happening. So a number of post docs are actively looking for new jobs.

4. Foreign nationals

- If you are a foreign national, for instance in the U.S. on an H1B visa, these changes are especially upsetting. The fear is that a foreign national could be sent back to their home country and not get another chance to work in the U.S. for years.

5. Those who can be outsourced

- There are a number of parts of the Lab that could be productively outsourced to a company somewhere else. Parts of Human Resources and record keeping have been outsourced by many companies. If a person's job is outsourced to Ohio, this presents a problem to the person.

6. Contractors

- There is a short term budget savings by laying off contractors. This is already happening.

7. Double dippers

There is a short term budget savings by canceling the contracts of people who have retired from the lab but who still work at the lab part time.