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Post by george1 on Jul 1, 2019 17:29:49 GMT -5
As of 430 today, all overtime for writing was ceased. Senior attorneys are to cease writing but will review 1000 day old cases... things are changing with backlog decreasing and new Commissioner appointment
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Post by christina on Jul 1, 2019 17:32:51 GMT -5
As of 430 today, all overtime for writing was ceased. Senior attorneys are to cease writing but will review 1000 day old cases... things are changing with backlog decreasing and new Commissioner appointment Ssas are not writing anymore? Wow. I don’t remember a time when we did no writing. |
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Post by jimmyjiggles on Jul 1, 2019 17:57:46 GMT -5
As of 430 today, all overtime for writing was ceased. Senior attorneys are to cease writing but will review 1000 day old cases... things are changing with backlog decreasing and new Commissioner appointment Is this for real? No OT agency wide? I have not seen any official pronouncement (email) to this effect. But hey, no writing? Sign me up! |
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Post by golden on Jul 1, 2019 18:25:15 GMT -5
As of 430 today, all overtime for writing was ceased. Senior attorneys are to cease writing but will review 1000 day old cases... things are changing with backlog decreasing and new Commissioner appointment Is this for real? No OT agency wide? I have not seen any official pronouncement (email) to this effect. But hey, no writing? Sign me up! Yes. Email from CALJ went out to HO and RO mgmt this afternoon ending all decision writing OT for all OHO components and directing SAAs to stop writing decisions — they can continue cases already started but others should be reassigned. A standard template was included for reviews to be done by SAAs for 1000-day-old cases followed by a hierarchy of other cases. |
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Post by jcc on Jul 1, 2019 18:27:34 GMT -5
Meet the new backlog. Same as the old backlog.
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Post by george1 on Jul 1, 2019 18:38:24 GMT -5
For SAAs, I believe it was 1000 day old cases, then Aged cases, and then non-disability cases..
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Post by hopefalj on Jul 1, 2019 20:14:11 GMT -5
As of 430 today, all overtime for writing was ceased. Senior attorneys are to cease writing but will review 1000 day old cases... things are changing with backlog decreasing and new Commissioner appointment Is this for real? No OT agency wide? I have not seen any official pronouncement (email) to this effect. But hey, no writing? Sign me up! Not a bad little parting gift to you from the agency, eh? The lack of writing anyway, not the cessation of OT. I'm assuming this will be a nationwide project since I'm not sure our SAA will have anything to do without many, if any, cases over 1000 days. What a curious turn of events. |
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Post by zbornee on Jul 1, 2019 20:34:53 GMT -5
AA here. We got no warning that OT was stopping. Lovely.
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Post by Highlander on Jul 1, 2019 20:47:40 GMT -5
Might it be 1000+ of medical records?
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Post by Highlander on Jul 1, 2019 20:48:50 GMT -5
*pages...I gave heard something like this recently
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Post by Gaidin on Jul 1, 2019 21:01:03 GMT -5
Might it be 1000+ of medical records? Nope 1,000 days. |
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Post by mbd on Jul 1, 2019 21:08:19 GMT -5
AA here. We got no warning that OT was stopping. Lovely. My office hasn’t had writing OT in two months because of the lack of backlog. It seems pretty fortunate you’ve had it this long. |
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Post by jimmy224 on Jul 1, 2019 21:10:26 GMT -5
if there is no more backlog, do you think they will do a rif?
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Post by george1 on Jul 1, 2019 21:46:09 GMT -5
Question is with SAAs becoming subject to DWPI, how will this play out.. will we be required to write these reviews to get credit in the new fiscal year.. interesting times
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Post by 2rvrrun on Jul 2, 2019 5:43:54 GMT -5
AA here. We got no warning that OT was stopping. Lovely. My office hasn’t had writing OT in two months because of the lack of backlog. It seems pretty fortunate you’ve had it this long. We had OT as recently as last Friday. |
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Post by george1 on Jul 2, 2019 5:47:00 GMT -5
The directive was yesterday at 430 pm. Now, seniors are told not to write but review. Workload pending is drying up to an unprecedented low number..
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Post by george1 on Jul 2, 2019 6:05:56 GMT -5
This is not a good sign at all.. I would be very concerned for new hires employed as not to exceed..
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Post by 2rvrrun on Jul 2, 2019 9:59:53 GMT -5
Also new AAs hired as recently as last month. GS 11, I think.
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Post by bartleby on Jul 2, 2019 10:08:12 GMT -5
Strange, what I heard in this Region was that there would be quotas placed on Senior Attorneys....
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Post by christina on Jul 2, 2019 10:15:20 GMT -5
Strange, what I heard in this Region was that there would be quotas placed on Senior Attorneys.... Kinda both. Yes on quotas but it sounds like “auxiliary” time will count towards productivity. Dwr work is one of the aux categories |
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