Time-in-Grade (TIG) restrictions are intended to
prevent excessively rapid promotions in competitive service General
Schedule (GS) positions and to protect competitive principles. They provide a
budgetary control on promotion rates and help ensure that appointments are made from
appropriate registers. TIG restrictions apply to advancement to a GS position in the competitive service by any individual who within the previous 52
weeks held a GS position under nontemporary appointment in the competitive or excepted service in the executive branch. There are a number of
exceptions to this policy that your Personnel Office can explain to you. The following TIG restrictions must be met unless an exception to the policy applies:
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All service at the required or higher grade in positions to which appointed in the Federal civilian service is creditable towards the required time periods. Creditable service includes competitive and excepted service in positions under the GS and other pay systems, including employment with a nonappropriated fund instrumentality. Service while on detail is credited at the grade of the employee's position of record, not the grade of the position to which detailed. Service in positions not subject to the GS is credited at the equivalent GS grade by comparing the candidate's rate of basic pay with the representative rate of the GS position in effect when the non-GS service was performed. |
Revised: 11/10/98 |