How many employees will be separated as a result of a private sector win?
It is impossible to project the number of employees who will be separated as a result of outsourcing. As outlined in the previous question, the FAA management will make every reasonable effort to minimize the number of employees who will be separated. 46. If the Contractor wins the bid or the MEO does not provide employees an opportunity to perform their current jobs, does the elimination of Title V restrict employee rights to find placement in another Federal job? The FAA has an Interchange Agreement with the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), which allows a permanent FAA employee, who previously acquired career status in the competitive service, to apply for positions under a competitive service agency’s Merit Promotion Plan (Internal Selection) as long as it is open to federal employees outside the agency. One’s career status in the competitive service may have been earned either with the FAA (prior to its becoming an excepted service agency, April 1. 1996) or with another agency
