U. S. Office of Personnel ManagementNEWS RELEASESJanuary 1997January 27, 1997: This media advisory provides a handy guide to the terminology used to explain federal government status in the Washington, DC, area during times of severe inclement dangerous weather or other emergency conditions requiring adjustments to the normal work schedules of federal employees whose workplaces are located inside the Capital Beltway. [News Release] January 23, 1997: The interest rate due on certain payments needed for civil service pension credit and paid on some refunds of civil service retirement contributions for calendar year 1997 will be 6.875 percent - the same rate as applied during calendar year 1996. [News Release] January 22, 1997: Office of Personnel Management Director Jim King said today that, in the rare event that an early work dismissal or late work arrival is required in the future due to inclement weather or some other type of emergency situation, Executive Branch federal civilian employees workers inside the Washington D.C. Capital Beltway will be guided by simple adjustment to their normal departure hours from home or work. [News Release] January 21, 1997: Federal decision-makers should tune in to the January 29 Interagency Satellite Broadcast to learn how a cornerstone of the government’s reinvention efforts -- the implementation of the Government Performance and Results Act -- will affect government operations and services as we approach the 21st century. [News Release] January 17, 1997: OPM Deputy Director Lorraine Green today received the Director’s Award for Distinguished Federal Service for her superb and distinguished leadership at the Office of Personnel Management. [News Release] January 16, 1997: OPM has proposed a change in the regulations governing the civil service pension programs which will result in greater protection for federal employees seeking retirement benefits based on disability. [News Release] January 13, 1997: Characterizing a decision of the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board in a sexual harassment case as "outrageous," the U.S. Office of Personnel Management has appealed the Board's action to overturn a federal department's removal of a high-ranking senior executive. [News Release] January 10, 1997: Washington, DC-- The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) can now restart civil service annuity payments and continue health benefits coverage for children of deceased federal employees who previously lost those benefits because of marriage. OPM can resume benefits, as early as October 1, 1996, if a child=s marriage has ended and he or she is still eligible for benefits because of disability or enrollment as a full-time student while under age 22. [News Release] January 9, 1997: At a retirement fete in Oklahoma City Wednesday evening, Office of Personnel Management Director James B. King surprised Dr. H.C. ‘Mac’ McClure, recently retired chairman of the Oklahoma City Federal Executive Board (FEB) and Director of the Mike Munroney Aeronautical Center, with the highest honor given to federal civilians: The President’s Award for Distinguished Federal Service. [News Release] January 3, 1997: OPM has authorized a special rate increase of 2.3 percent beginning in January 1997 for most employees working under special rate authorization. [News Release] |
Updated 14 Jan 1998