(CNSNews) – According to a 2014 survey by the Office of Personnel Management, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was ranked by its employees as the worst place to work among the government’s 37 large departments or agencies, Congress was told Thursday.
The department, which includes agencies such as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP), received an index score of 48 on global satisfaction in 2014, compared to a score of 62 in 2010. Last year’s score marks the lowest ranking of any government department that year.
Global satisfaction measures areas such as happiness with employees’ job, pay organization and whether they would recommend their department as a good place to work.
In her testimony before the House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee Thursday, Catherine Emerson, chief human capital officer for DHS, blamed the department’s dropping employee moral on sequestration, financial struggles and the recent threat of a DHS shutdown last February.
More than an hour into the hearing, Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) was the first congressman to ask whether DHS’s low morale had anything to do with the recent surge of illegal aliens crossing the southwest U.S. border and President Barack Obama’s string of executive immigration policies, which include granting temporary amnesty to the vast majority of illegal aliens currently living in the United States.
“I have worked with a number of immigration agents, and they feel like they are a racehorse that is being kept in the stable, and they never get out of the gate to be able to run, and that is the morale issue that I hear from people on the ground and from my prior life in law enforcement,” Buck said.
“If people have a mission and a mission statement, and they’re frustrated…they’re obviously attracted to the agency, because they wanted to work on that mission, and if they’re frustrated in that sense, it seems to be that would be part of the morale problem. Any opinion on that?” he asked.
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Of that group, TSA is probably the most hated subgroup.
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