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Upholding Civil Service Protections and Merit System Principles
The Personnel Management Office published this final rule in the Federal Register on April 9, 2024. It took effect on May 9, 2024.
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What the agency says
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing final regulations to reinforce and clarify longstanding civil service protections and merit system principles, codified in law, as they relate to the involuntary movement of Federal employees and positions from the competitive service to the excepted service, or from one excepted service schedule to another. In this final rule, OPM adopts many of the provisions from the proposed rule with some modifications and clarifications based on comments received from the public. The final regulations will better align OPM regulations with relevant statutory text, congressional intent, legislative history, legal precedent, and OPM's longstanding practice.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2024-06815
- Type
- Final rule
- Action
- Final rule
- Agency
- Personnel Management Office
- Published
- April 9, 2024
- Takes effect
- May 9, 2024
- Dates
- Effective May 9, 2024.
- Docket
- Docket ID: OPM-2023-0013
- Regulation ID (RIN)
- 3206-AO56
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 5 CFR 210; 5 CFR 212; 5 CFR 213; 5 CFR 302; 5 CFR 432; 5 CFR 451; 5 CFR 752
- Topics
- Government employees; Reporting and recordkeeping requirements
- Significant
- Yes, under Executive Order 12866
- Pages
- 68
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