Great News: Federal Government Workers more likely to die on job than be fired

or laid off".  From USA Today - talk about job security....

Death — rather than poor performance, misconduct or layoffs — is the primary threat to job security at the Environmental Protection Agency, the Small Business Administration, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Office of Management and Budget and a dozen other federal operations.

The federal government fired 0.55% of its workers in the budget year that ended Sept. 30 — 11,668 employees in its 2.1 million workforce. Research shows that the private sector fires about 3% of workers annually for poor performance, says John Palguta, former research chief at the federal Merit Systems Protection Board, which handles federal firing disputes.

Turnover minimal at
federal agencies

Federal departments or agencies employing 1,000 or more that had the lowest rates of firing or laying off employees in the year ending Sept. 30, 2010:

	Employees	Laid off or fired
Federal Communications Commission	1,832	0
Federal Trade Commission	1,189	0
Nuclear Regulatory Commission	4,211	2
National Labor Relations Board	1,714	1
National Aeronautics and Space Administration	18,671	13
Environmental Protection Agency	18,742	19
U.S. Agency for International Development	3,376	4
Securities and Exchange Commission	3,917	5
Small Business Administration	4,019	6
Department of Housing and Urban Development	10,041	15

Source: Office of Personnel Management

The 1,800-employee Federal Communications Commission and the 1,200-employee Federal Trade Commission didn't lay off or fire a single employee last year. The SBA had no layoffs, six firings and 17 deaths in its 4,000-employee workforce.

When job security is at a premium, the federal government remains the place to work for those who want to avoid losing a job. The job security rate for all federal workers was 99.43% last year and nearly 100% for those on the job more than a few years.