U. S. Office of Personnel Management
FEDERAL REGISTER
DOCUMENTS
January 1995
- January 27, 1995: Prevailing
Rate Systems; Special Wage Schedules for Supervisors
-
- The Office of Personnel Management is issuing a final
rule to establish special wage schedules for the
supervisors of certain Bureau of Reclamation, Department
of the Interior, employees who negotiate their wage
rates.
[Federal Register Regulation: PDF or text]
January 27, 1995:
Prevailing Rate Systems; Abolishment of New York, New York,
Special Wage Schedules for Printing Positions
The Office of Personnel Management is issuing interim
regulations to abolish the Federal Wage System special wage
schedule for printing positions in the New York, New York,
wage area. Printing and lithographic employees in New York,
New York, will now be paid rates from the regular New York,
New York, wage schedule.
[Federal Register Regulation: PDF or text]
- January 27, 1995: Proposed
Regulation on Performance Management
The Office of Personnel
Management (OPM) is issuing proposed
regulations to deregulate performance management and
incentive awards, including provisions allowing
agencies to use as few as two levels for critical element
appraisals and summary ratings for non-SES employees, and to
make conforming changes to related regulations. These changes
are proposed to provide agencies additional flexibility as
called for by the National Performance Review.
[Federal Register Regulation: PDF (102K File) or text (132K File)]
January
25, 1995: Processing
Garnishment Orders for Child Support and/or Alimony; Final Rule
This publication amends the list of
designated agents in accordance with information provided
by various Federal agencies. This publication also
corrects a technical error that was reported to The
Office of Personnel Management by the Corporation for
National and Community Service.
[Federal Register Regulation: PDF (139K File) or text (124K File)]
- January 25, 1995: National
Partnership; Meetings
- The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) announces the
February and March meetings of the National Partnership
Council (the Council). Notice of these meetings is
required under the Federal Advisory Committee Act.
[Federal Register Regulation: PDF or text]
January 20, 1995: Notice
of Request for a Revised Clearance of Form RI 92-19
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980
(title 44, U.S. C. chapter 35), this notice announced a
request for a revised clearance of an information collection.
Form RI 92-19, Application for Deferred or Postponed
Retirement (FERS), will be used by separated employees to
apply for either a deferred or postponed FERS annuity
benefit.
[Federal Register Regulation: PDF or text]
January 20, 1995: Notice
of Request for Reclearance of Form RI 38-115
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980
(title 44, U.S. Code, chapter 35), this notice announces a
request for reclearance of an information collection. Form RI
38-115, Representative Payee Report, is designed to collect
information about how the benefits paid to a representative
payee have been used or conserved for the benefit of the
incompetent annuitant.
[Federal Register Regulation: PDF or text]
- January 17, 1995: Law Enforcement Officers and
Firefighters
The Office of Personnel Management
(OPM) is issuing final rules amending the regulations
covering special retirement provisions for law enforcement
officers and firefighters employed under the Civil Service
Retirement System (CSRS). These changes, and conforming
changes under the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS),
are intended to improve efficiency by delegating to the
employing agencies responsibility for deciding who is
entitled to coverage under the special retirement provisions.
[Federal Register Regulation: PDF or text]
January 13, 1995: Federal
Staffing Provisions Supporting Sunset of the Federal Personnel
Manual
This rule places into regulation a limited number of
Federal staffing provisions that were formerly in the Federal
Personnel Manual (FPM). The remaining "provisionally
retained'' portions of the FPM were abolished on December 31,
1994. This rule deleted or replaced regulatory language which
references the FPM. Its provisions also defined or clarified
terms and described procedures used in veterans' preference,
reductions in force, veterans' readjustment appointments,
term appointments, seasonal and intermittent employment,
noncompetitive term appointments based on Peace Corps
service, exemption of certain employees from coverage of the
Part-time Career Employment Act, physical requirements for
employment, and actions taken during a national emergency
(including the possible appointment of relatives). The
provisions also deleted requirements for a number of regular
reports.
[Federal Register Regulation: PDF or text]
January 12, 1995: Privacy
Act; Systems of Records
Each Federal agency is required by
the Privacy Act of 1974, 5 U.S.C. 552a, to publish annually a
description of the systems of records it maintains containing
personal information. In this notice the Board provides the
required information on five previously-noticed systems of
records.
[Federal Register Regulation: PDF or text]
January 11, 1995: Reduction in Force
Notice-Certification of Expected Separation
The Office of Personnel Management
(OPM) is issuing final reduction in force (RIF) regulations
that authorize: an agency to issue a Certification of
Expected Separation to an employee who the agency expects
will be separated within 6 months by RIF; the Director of OPM
to approve a (RIF) notice period of less than 60 days
specific written notice in unforeseeable circumstances; and,
an agency to make a permissive temporary exception for more
than 90 days past the RIF effective date to satisfy a
Government obligation to an employee.
[Federal Register Regulation: PDF or text]
January 10, 1995: Pay Administration Under the Fair
Labor Standards Act
The U.S. Office of Personnel
Management (OPM) is publishing a proposed rule to amend
regulations on the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA or the
"Act"). This rule supersedes instructions contained
in Federal Personnel Manual Letter 551-9, Civil Service
Commission System for Administering the Fair Labor Standards
Act (FLSA) Compliance and Complaint System (March 30, 1976),
provisionally retained through December 31, 1994; and
provides for OPM compliance authority regarding FLSA matters.
[Federal Register Regulation: PDF or text]
January 10, 1995: Time-In-Grade Rule Eliminated
On June 15, 1994, the Office of
Personnel Management (OPM) proposed regulations to abolish
the time-in-grade restriction on promotion of Federal
employees to positions in the General Schedule. The National
Performance Review and National Partnership Council had
recommended the elimination of the 1-year Federal service
requirement for promotions because it prevents employees from
applying for jobs for which the qualify.
[Federal Register Regulation: PDF or text]
January 4, 1995: Prevailing Rate Systems; Abolishment
of Detroit Special Wage
Schedules for Printing Positions
The Office of Personnel Management
is issuing a final rule to abolish the Federal Wage System
special wage schedule for printing positions in the Detroit,
Michigan, wage area. Printing and lithographic employees in
Detroit will now be paid rates from the regular Detroit,
Michigan, wage schedule.
[Federal Register Regulation: PDF or text]
|