U. S. Office of Personnel Management

NEWS RELEASES

June 1999



June 24, 1999: Office of Personnel Management Director Janice R. Lachance unveiled a new guide to help federal employees who believe they have been discriminated against because of their sexual orientation. [News Release]

June 23, 1999: Raising pay levels to help recruit and retain executives in the federal government is a key issue among members of the Senior Executive Service, concludes a survey of top federal managers which was released today. The survey also indicates that members of the Senior Executive Service (SES) firmly believe their value as executives lies in the overall managerial and leadership skills they possess, not in their technical expertise in a given program area. [News Release]

June 18, 1999: Office of Personnel Management Director Janice R. Lachance joined today with other authorities in the field of labor relations in a panel discussion on labor relations in the federal sector, developments in the workplace, and how partnerships and reinvention have been working and influencing the delivery of services to the public. [News Release]

June 17, 1999: Office of Personnel Management Director Janice R. Lachance will join with other authorities in the field of labor relations on Friday, June 18 in a panel discussion on labor relations in the federal sector, developments in the workplace, and how partnerships and reinvention have been working and influencing the delivery of services to the public. [News Release]

June 17, 1999: Office of Personnel Management Director Janice R. Lachance will discuss the challenges facing the human resources community in the next century during her keynote address on Thursday, June 24, at the Fifth Technical Meeting, a Social Security-sponsored conference. Social Security officials from at least thirty countries from South America, Central America, and the Caribbean will attend the conference. [News Release]

June 17, 1999: Suzanne B. Seiden has been named General Counsel by Office of Personnel Management Director Janice Lachance. [News Release]

June 14, 1999: Office of Personnel Management Director Janice Lachance today welcomed Mara Patermaster to the OPM team. Ms. Patermaster joins the agency as Combined Federal Campaign Operations Director, where she will oversee the largest workplace fund-raising drive. [News Release]

June 7, 1999: President Clinton has directed the Office of Personnel Management to achieve parity for mental health and substance abuse coverage in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP) by 2001. [News Release]


 

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