FY 2000
Budget Justification/Performance Plan
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U.S. Office of Personnel
Management FY 2000 |
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| ES Goal 6: FY 1999/2000 |
Agencies receive clear, accurate, timely advice and assistance to ensure that the lawful rights of employees and applicants, including veterans, are safeguarded. |
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Develop simple and clear explanations of laws, regulations, and Presidential policies which can be understood and easily adapted by agencies, following plain language guidance. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Provide comprehensive models, guidance, and assistance to agencies as they conduct decentralized HR activities and implement employment policies and programs. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Continue to use more collaborative processes with agencies to improve the way in which operating managers and personnel staff learn about new developments affecting their human resource management responsibilities and the policy tools available to them. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Use electronic media, including the OPM Web site and CD ROM formats to widely disseminate core policy and program information, including laws, regulations, appellate decisions, and to respond to questions. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ensure that all proposed and final rules published in the Federal Register use plain language. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Review and rewrite, as needed, all ES documents explaining how to obtain services or how to comply with agency requirements in plain language, by the end of FY 2001. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Report on the guidance and models issued during
the year. ES issued memoranda to HR Directors announcing new provisions of the Defense Authorization Act for FY 1998 that extended veterans’ preference to Gulf War veterans and veterans meeting certain other specific service criteria. ES prepared questions and answers addressing issues concerning these new provisions and placed them on the OPM web site; and issued instructions to OPM examining offices and agency Delegated Examining Units (DEU’s) on how to apply the new provisions. ES conducted two special reviews of sample vacancy announcements to determine whether they met special career transition announcement requirements; conducted a study of the Reemployment Priority Program; completed comprehensive reports on agency buyout use and agency reemployment of buyout-takers; developed a new regulation-based voluntary early retirement program; and issued guidance on the use of Early Retirement Authority during FY 1998 and FY 1999. Also in FY 1998 ES issued a new CD-Rom entitled "Career Transition -- a Briefing and Resource Guide for Employees" and in FY 1999, ES will develop comprehensive guides for agencies and managers on restructuring alternatives and RIF avoidance, and on HR issues and policies when outsourcing. ES provided support to agencies in understanding medical disqualifications of preference eligibles, and in developing medical standards for positions considered arduous and hazardous. ES also assisted the District of Columbia in its efforts to minimize the impact of downsizing, by establishing a special program to place in Federal positions displaced D.C. corrections workers, and approved an early retirement authority request for all D.C. Government. |
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Evaluate qualitative feedback from agencies on the usefulness of guidance provided, including feedback on the OPM Web site. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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An increase in the level of agency HR Specialists’ satisfaction with information sharing and technical assistance in employment areas, as measured by informal feedback and by a 2% increase over FY 1999 levels in the percentage of favorable ratings (or maintenance at 90% or higher) on the annual OPM Customer Satisfaction Survey. The HR Specialists’ baseline satisfaction levels with major components of the ES program as measured by the FY 1998 survey were as follows:
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Satisfaction levels at 80% or higher for
specific guidance materials issued in FY 2000 as measured by HR Specialists’ ratings
on the annual OPM Customer Satisfaction Survey. The HR Specialists’ baseline satisfaction levels with guidance materials issued in FY 1998 were as follows:
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Evaluate the results of the annual Merit System Principles Questionnaire to determine if there has been at least a 2% improvement in perception of equity and merit base of agency staffing decisions over the FY 1999 results. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Evaluate the results of oversight reviews to determine if fewer findings of systemic problems are found in agencies, and improvements are noted. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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All proposed and new rules published in the Federal Register meet plain language criteria. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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At least half of all existing ES policy documents are rewritten in plain language by the end of FY 2000. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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