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Shared Certificates and Pooled Hiring Actions
The Personnel Management Office published this final rule in the Federal Register on September 15, 2026. It took effect on October 15, 2026. Comments are due by November 16, 2026.
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What the agency says
The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing an interim rule to improve hiring efficiency across federal agencies, modify provisions pertaining to how an appointing authority (i.e., the head of a Federal agency or department) may share a competitive certificate with one or more appointing authorities, implement provisions to allow an appointing authority to share an excepted service certificate with one or more appointing authorities, and implement provisions regarding OPM-led hiring actions which allow federal agencies to utilize competitive and excepted service certificates for occupations common to many agencies.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2026-18828
- Type
- Final rule
- Action
- Interim rule with request for comments
- Agency
- Personnel Management Office
- Published
- September 15, 2026
- Takes effect
- October 15, 2026
- Comments due
- November 16, 2026
- Dates
- Effective date. This interim rule is effective October 15, 2026,
- Docket
- Docket ID: OPM-2017-0004
- Regulation ID (RIN)
- 3206-AO24
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 5 CFR 302; 5 CFR 332; 5 CFR 337
- Topics
- Government employees; Reporting and recordkeeping requirements; Veterans
- Significant
- Yes, under Executive Order 12866
- Pages
- 17
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