OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT ISSUES RULE: SHARED CERTIFICATES AND POOLED HIRING ACTIONS

WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 -- Office Of Personnel Management has issued a rule called: Shared Certificates and Pooled Hiring Actions.

The rule was published in the Federal Register on Sept. 15 by Jerson Matias, Federal Register Liaison.

Summary: 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...