RECOVERY

There are several ways to approach this issue. First, you can change the mix of personnel to accommodate this person or these persons. I recommend that you pursue this avenue first, even if you want to get relief in other ways. This is the first question the functional manager or management will ask you. Second, you can approach the functional manager to assign someone else. After all, the functional manager was the one who bid this labor rate in the proposal and then gave you something else. Third, you can attempt to convince the functional manager to subsidize the delta salary of the individual within the functional manager's overhead (care must be taken here, especially on government contracts, which may not allow this action). Finally, ...

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