AugustRN501

Sorry! How did I leave out the email. Night shift brain. [email protected] ty!!

I would also be grateful for a copy of the proposal. Sorry I haven't been on in some time. Lots of OT right now. We actually got to talking about 72/80 last night at work with one of the ANMs. I mentioned that there was a workgroup nationally on recruitment and retention that is pushing for the VA to nationally have 72/80 option for any nurses that would want it. So, an ACOS could not deny it as it would be nationally implemented. Has anyone else heard this? I actually got emailed some items on it a couple months ago. I was told last night that in the unlikely event we would go to 72 hours there was no way that we would ever get the raise to keep us at our current salaries and only work 72 hours. "Because we are paid by the tax payers and they don't want to pay us the same for taking 8 hours a pay off.” Understandable. So I wonder how it will work for the masses if it is adopted. The service line I am in at my VA had to go to the union to literally push through compressed tours. And the best we could get was four 10s. With current staffing needs that has become two 12s and two 8's. Out of the three units under our service line...mine is the only one consistently pushing to maintain it. One unit only lets those grandfathered in keep them and new hires are doing five 8s and the third unit only allows five 8s. We can't even get the regular three 12s with the every other week 8……The entire rest of inpatient has them...just not our service line. This leaves me with little hope for 72/80 but I'd still be grateful to see the presentation. I can see nurses literally making VA transfers to get the 72/80 if they start becoming more available. thanks so much!

@Senchen from what I understand, they take the top three consecutive high earning years. That is not always the last three and it's not a Jan to Dec calendar year. It's the true top three consecutive 36 months. It's more of collect you top three earning years a the SF50s you got during those years, the one you got when you recover a step increase for example. They compute the amount of actual days with the amount you were earning on those days, add it all up, divide by theee, and that's the figure that goes into the calculation for the retirement amount. If you have been here 20 or more years it's a 1.1% and less than 20 it's 1%. They take that number, multiply it by the amount of years you worked, and then divide that by 12 for your monthly pension. Your FEHB and FEGLI will come out of that.