“To me, it just points to a deliberate lack of planning,” Whitehouse said. “That’s the strategy. They don’t care. It’s creating all these problems for employees.”
PEER outlined its concerns in a Tuesday letter to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, claiming that “sloppy record-keeping” and “illegal actions” by the Department of Commerce were harming NOAA workers.
“These problems are not the result of the human resource staff at NOAA, but the failure of the Department of Commerce to follow the law and provide the necessary support,” the letter said.