Senate Backs DoD Hiring Restriction on Military Retirees

"...The Senate’s version of the DoD authorization bill revisits a topic that has been the focus of controversy for years, the hiring of military retirees into civil service positions at that department—a practice that many career federal employees consider a form of favoritism that limits their career advancement opportunities.

Military retirees are generally barred from being hired as DoD civilians for 180 days after their retirement, but that policy has several exceptions. At the Senate’s initiative, the defense budget measure for fiscal 2017 essentially eliminated the largest of those exceptions, hiring based on a “state of national emergency.”
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