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Division of State Group
Insurance
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A friend told me that he was told that employees at the Division of
State Group Insurance were informed Friday that their division was being
privatized effective 7/1/02. As usual, employees were apparently
told that if they said anything about this they would be immediately
terminated. He said that would impact over 800 employees. Have
you heard anything about this?
... WSC, 5/13/02
 | WF: It appears as if your friend was referring to
the outsourcing of 800 + Human Resources positions. DSGI is a
part of Human Resources. I guess employees were informed when
the budget was passed. The legislature snuck this one in without any
discussion, so this might explain the demand for no contact with the
press. Our sunshine government at work... Anyhow you can
check the following link at Department of Management Services for a
sketch of which HR services were scheduled to be privatized, which
weren't, etc. http://www.myflorida.com/dms/hrm/hrout/ExpoFran121001.PDF
An additional note: the Friday notification underpins how the
administration had it so well orchestrated. If notifications were sent
out to employees on Friday, before the 72 hour waiting period was over
- that's before the budget was signed?! Reminds me of the input
state employees were supposed to have had in the decision about "service
first". Someone
from DMS posted on WF that the bill was already winding its way through
approval channels while we were sending in our suggestions...
Here's a quote from a story
in the 5/11/02 Democrat on
the privatization:
"DMS Secretary Cynthia Henderson ... said many of the 800
positions are vacant and the remaining employees will either be hired
by Convergys or be transferred to other jobs within their departments
or other departments."
Be sure and keep us posted on how that plays out!!!
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