Vet Preference
What legislation provides that agencies must allow preference eligible or eligible veterans to apply for positions announced under merit promotion procedures when the agency is recruiting from outside its own workforce?
What is Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA)
You plan to fill a position at your activity from outside your component. Which of the following referral codes would be appropriate?
What is referral code A
What WG job element cannot be changed?
What is Screen-out element
What chapter in the GPPA covers term appointments in the competitive service?
What is Chapter 10
The first year of service of an employee who is given a career or career-conditional appointment in the competitive service under the Civil Service Regulations
What is a Probationary Period
Which 10-point disability preference adds ten points to the passing examination score or rating of a veteran who has received a Purple Heart?
What is XP
What report lists RPAs that were closed from pre-requisitioning during the last 14 days?
What is R16
These are principles that ensure employees are selected based on their skills, knowledge, and abilities rather than political affiliation or other non-merit factors.
What are Merit Principles
A nature of action used to document personnel actions that change an employee (1) to a position at a higher grade level within the same job classification system and pay schedule or (2) to position with a higher rate of basic pay in a different job classification system and pay schedule.
What is a Promotion
Is provided at an agency's discretion for such events related to the closure of the official Federal worksite due to natural disasters, such as: hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, wildfires, earthquakes, landslides, snowstorms, or during building specific emergencies such as a fire or power outage
What is Weather and Safety Leave
What special authority by which agencies can, if they wish, appoint eligible veterans without competition to positions at any grade level through General Schedule (GS) 12 or equivalent?
What is 30 Percent or More Disabled Veterans
Requisition submitted through the ASARS website remain active for how many days?
What is 90 days?
This system is used to consider current and former federal employees for positions on the basis of personal merit. Positions are usually filled through competition with applicants being evaluated and ranked for positions based on their experience, education, skills, and performance record.
What is Merit Promotion
This document contains information on how to prepare and process personnel actions, Standard Form 52 (SF-52), and Standard Form 50 (SF-50).
What is the GPPA
The amount of days an employee can be on administrative leave?
What is 10 days
At what rank (and above) is a retiree no longer eligible for Veterans' Preference in RIF?
What is Major
This code increases the number of vacancies on an active requisition and initiates a new 90-day requisition period.
What is Referral code I
Experience that has equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position and is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled.
What is Specialized Experience
This form is usually initiated by the office or supervisor who wants to take a personnel action, such as the appointment of an employee; occasionally the personnel office initiates the form.
What is the Request for Personnel Action
Supervisors may grant brief excused absences on an ad hoc basis for all employees as long as the reasons are justifiable. Cases of occasional tardiness to work, holidays, due to a flat tire or problem at home, can also be covered by the rule.
What is 59 minute rule
**Double Jeopardy Bonus Question**
How much active duty service credit does a uniformed services retiree who is preference eligible receive for RIF purposes?
What is All
These are used in registration to more specifically define qualifications, and in requisitioning to clarify job requirements.
What are Option Codes
Special provision which permits the agency to add on the difference between length of experience required for current position and length of experience required for proposed position.
What is Add-on Rule
**Double Jeopardy Bonus Question**
The law, Executive Order, regulation, agency directive, or the instruction under which the personnel action is taken.
What is the Legal Authority
Is a unique number that is assigned by OPM to identify a Federal civilian personnel office that has been delegated authority to appoint and separate employees, prepare personnel actions, maintain official personnel records, and administer programs for staff compensation, training and development, benefits and awards, and employee/labor relations. POIs are not intended for tracking purposes.
What is a Personnel Office Identifier
What organization receives complaints under the Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998, which allows preference eligibles to complain when the person believes an agency has violated his or her rights under any statute or regulation relating to Veterans' preference.
What is Veteran's Employment and Training Service (VETS)
This code is used when the requisition has been continuously unmatched since initial submission and the RPA is either canceled or is no longer subject to PPP (e.g., authorized PPP exception invoked). Do not use this code if any ASARS referrals were issued, even if the referrals have been properly cleared and the requisition is currently unmatched?
What is cancel code K?
A noncompetitive action in which a position is filled with a current or former competitive service employee through promotion, reassignment, change to lower grade, transfer, reinstatement, reemployment, or restoration.
What is Inservice Placement
Put on the Standard Form 50 to explain the action to the employee, the payroll office, future employers, the Office of Personnel Management, and to other Federal agencies.
What is a remark
This entity or council is the principal interagency forum to advise and coordinate the activities of the agencies of its members on such matters as modernization of human resources systems, improved quality of human resources information, and legislation affecting human resources operations and organizations.
What is the Chief Human Capital Officer Council (CHCO)
What legislation allows transitioning service's members to apply for federal positions before they officially separate from the military, potentially receiving veterans' preference even before they receive their DD214?
What is the VOW (Veterans Opportunity to Work) Act
A promotion resulting from an employee's position being classified at a higher grade because of additional duties and responsibilities as described in Subpart 335.103(c)(3)(ii) of reference (a).
Is an example of what in the PPP Handbook?
What is an exception
Is a tool used to evaluate candidates for a position, comprised of basic eligibility requirements; criteria for determining highly qualified candidates; and ranking and referral procedures.
What is a Crediting Plan
Movement of an employee from the jurisdiction of one appointing officer in an agency to that of another appointing officer in the same agency. This usually involves a move from a position for which one personnel office provides service and maintains records to a position for which another personnel office in the same agency provides service and maintains records.
What is CAO (CHANGE OF APPOINTING OFFICE)
Who has the authority to prescribe reporting requirements covering personnel actions in section 2951, title 5, United States Code. Section 9.2, civil service rule IX, is based on that statute and extends this authority to all types of appointments and personnel actions.
Who is OPM