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Career Service Certificates recognize various milestones in an employee's Federal Career. Retirement Certificates recognize an employment career completed in the Federal Service. Available since 1988, these certificates provide a form...
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Follow these links for the Guide to Processing Personnel Actions and the Guide to Personnel Recordkeeping.
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A critical element is a work assignment or responsibility of such
importance that unacceptable performance on that element would result in
a determination the employee's overall performance is unacceptable. The
regulations require employees...
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Performance awards are lump-sum cash awards based on ratings of record of Level 3 (Fully Successful or equivalent) or higher. Rating-based performance awards are included among the various types of...
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No. The regulations specifically restrict the delay of a within-grade determination to the two conditions stated in the regulations (and reviewed in the previous question). Consideration was given to permitting...
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While employees must receive a rating of record at the highest summary level used by the program and meet the agency-specified criteria for qualifying for a quality step increase, a...
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A performance-based cash award, also commonly known as a rating-based
award, is a lump-sum cash payment authorized by 5 U.S.C. 4505a and 5 CFR
451.104 and requires only the most recent rating...
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In designing their award programs, agencies have a responsibility to look beyond the award regulations themselves and make sure that the specific reward and incentive programs that are being proposed...
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An opportunity period, or a PIP as it is often called, provides a
reasonable chance for the employee whose
performance has been determined to be unacceptable in one or more
critical elements to...
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No. An agency program must specify the length
of its minimum period and that minimum must fall within any limits
established
by the agency appraisal system. However, the outcomes of performance
appraisals
are applied in...
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