U. S. Office of Personnel Management

NEWS RELEASES

December 1995


December 20, 1995: Washington, D.C.--REMINDER: If you do not get a specific call by 6 a.m. from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) through your weather procedure using special codes, the federal government will be open as usual. OPM will not call you to announce the government is open. [News Release]

December 12, 1995: Washington, D.C. -- The U.S. Office of Personnel Management is issuing interim regulations to implement the President's memorandum of September 12, 1995, that directs agencies undergoing downsizing to develop career transition assistance programs to benefit their displaced federal employees. [News Release]

December 12, 1995: Washington, D.C.--Office of Personnel Management Director Jim King yesterday issued a notice to heads of Executive departments and agencies providing a summary of the rights and benefits of those federal employees who, as military reservists, are being called to assist in the international efforts in former Yugoslavia. This mobilization is called "Operation Joint Endeavor." [News Release]

December 12, 1995: Washington, D.C.--The President's Pay Agent has extended any 1996 locality-based comparability payments to certain categories of non-General Schedule (non-GS) employees. [News Release]

December 11, 1995: Washington, D.C. -- The Office of Personnel Management is on a mission....a mission to ensure federal agencies have access to qualified job candidates who will perform America's vital work into the 21st century, and make the retirement years of hard-working, former federal employees and their families as hassle-free as possible.
[News Release]

December 11, 1995: Washington, D.C.--The Office of Personnel Management has reinvented how it provides retirement information to agency personnel and payroll offices through the Handbook on Disk. The CSRS and FERS Handbook for Personnel and Payroll Offices, formerly Federal Personnel Manual Supplement 830-1, is now available on floppy disks. [News Release]

December 7, 1995: Washington, D.C. -- The U.S. Office of Personnel Management is proposing to simplify existing regulations governing the Senior Executive Service (SES). [News Release]



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