Promoting Employee Accountability

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) proposes amending its regulations consistent with Administration policy to promote employee accountability for poor performance and misconduct. The proposed rule would reduce the requirements placed on agencies when providing employees with an opportunity to demonstrate acceptable performance; eliminate the requirement that agencies must use progressive discipline for adverse actions and otherwise limit interference with the appropriate penalty determination; and restrict agencies from agreeing to remove performance-based and adverse actions from an employee’s official personnel folder and other records as a condition of settlement.