The DRP & Your Relationship To GESTA

We wanted to send a special note to our members who may be transitioning in the Deffered Resignation Program (DRP) program to administrative leave status. First, we honor your service to NASA and wish you the very best in your path beyond. Second, though once you transition to administrative leave status you will no longer be able to serve GESTA as an Executive Council member, represent employees or represent GESTA in conversations with management or the public, nor charge official time for GESTA duties, we want to let you know that you can still:

• Serve on a volunteer basis on a GESTA committee in a non-public or non-management facing role.
• As a dues paying member, continue to attend and participate in our monthly dues paying membership meetings remotely.
• As a bargaining unit employee while on administrative leave, still reach out to GESTA with any workplace questions, concerns or to ask for assistance.
• In any role while in administrative leave or post-retirement or post-resignation from NASA, still remain informed about GESTA and GESTA-related activities by subscribing to our mailing list using your personal email address at this Google form.

Also a note for our dues-paying members that if you signed up for payroll deduction for union dues, your dues will continue to automatically be deducted from your pay check until your formal resignation or retirement date unless you choose to opt out. But we encourage those who want to remain a part of the fight for NASA, to consider staying enrolled until that date.