U. S. Office of Personnel Management

NEWS RELEASES

January 1995


January 26, 1995: Washington, D.C. -- "Flexibility" and "decentralization" are two key ingredients of a new Performance Management system that federal managers would use to rate and evaluate their employees, as well as to reward them for superior work, according to a proposed rule announced by U.S. Office of Personnel Management Director Jim King.
[News Release]

January 18, 1995: Washington, D.C. -- Federal employees who may lose their jobs due to a reduction-in-force (RIF) can get a six-month head start on finding other employment or in receiving job retraining and other placement assistance under rules announced by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management Director Jim King. [News Release]

January 5, 1995: Washington, D.C. -- More than 15,000 non-Defense employees took a voluntary separation incentive or "buyout," during the first six months buyouts were offered to civilian employees. Between March 30, 1994, the date of enactment of the Federal Workforce Restructuring Act of 1994 and September 30, 1994, the end of the fiscal year, the Administration used buyouts to cut excess layers of management and reduce overall employment levels.
[News Release]



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