The Office of Personnel Management wants to make it easier to remove federal employees for performance or misconduct reasons.
In a new 81-page proposed rule set to come out tomorrow, OPM and the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) are jointly seeking to change the administrative procedures used to fire employees and the review process for such actions before the board.
“There are a lot of reasons – and solutions – but simply put, we have made the disciplinary and removal process too complicated and inefficient such that it’s easier for managers to ignore under-performance than to address. No manager wants to spend 6, 12 or even sometimes 18 months trying to manage out an under-performing employee. That changes now,” wrote OPM Director Scott Kupor in a blog post on the proposal. “[E]ven for those employees who truly are under-performing, the federal government does not do a good job at managing out (or successfully rehabilitating) these employees. Instead, too often, managers either ignore performance issues or … transfer under-performing employees to other groups or agencies. This does not serve the American people well, nor does it create a high-performance culture in which the many great federal employees we have can do their best work. In general, I have found that employees want to be in an environment where they can perform at their best, be rewarded and recognized for their performance, have a manager who cares about their career development and work alongside...
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