📊Final Rule on Senior Executive Service Performance Evaluations
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing this final rule to remove the prohibition of a forced distribution of performance rating levels within the Senior Executive Service (SES) as well as eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) language within SES performance management regulations. Governmentwide SES ratings data have consistently shown that most SES receive the highest rating levels (i.e., Levels 4 and 5) despite documented reports of SES failings. Allowing agencies to limit the highest SES rating levels will increase rigor in SES appraisal and lead to a more normalized distribution of SES ratings across the Federal Government.
Learn More📋Proposed Rule on Civil Service Accountability and Responsiveness
On April 23, 2025, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) published in the Federal Register a notice of proposed rulemaking to increase career employee accountability. The proposed rule invited the public to submit written comments beginning on the proposed rule publication date and ending on May 23, 2025. In response to requests for an extension of the comment period, OPM is extending the comment period to June 7, 2025.
Learn More🔍Proposed Rule on Federal Employee Accountability and Performance
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is proposing a rule to increase career employee accountability. Agency supervisors report great difficulty removing employees for poor performance or misconduct. The proposed rule lets policy-influencing positions be moved into Schedule Policy/Career. These positions will remain career jobs filled on a nonpartisan basis. Yet they will be at-will positions excepted from adverse action procedures or appeals. This will allow agencies to quickly remove employees from critical positions who engage in misconduct, perform poorly, or undermine the democratic process by intentionally subverting Presidential directives.
Learn More📋Selective Service System Rescinds Performance Review Board Notice
Selective Service System Rescinds its Performance Review Board [FR Doc. 2024-24311 Filed 10-18-24; 8:45 a.m.] per the President's Memorandum on Restoring Accountability for Career Senior Executives, dated January 20, 2025.
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