Appointing Authorities
This Appointing Authority gives veterans an opportunity to apply to positions outside of the Agency under merit promotion procedures.
What is VEOA?
The acronym for USERRA stands for this.
What is "Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act"?
A person who served in the active military and was discharged or released under conditions other than dishonorable.
What is a Veteran?
A veteran who served during the Gulf War from August 2, 1990 through January 2, 1992 and has no disabilities due to service is given this type of preference.
What is 5-Point Preference (TP)?
This Form shows the dates or total amount of active duty and type of discharge or separation.
What is a DD Form 214, Certificate of Discharge or Separation from Active Duty?
This appointing authority can be used to appoint eligible veterans without competition to positions at any grade level through GS-11 or equivalent (promotion potential is not a factor).
What is VRA or the Veterans Recruitment Appointment Authority?
USERRA establishes this cumulative length of time that an individual may be absent from work for military duty and retain reemployment rights.
What is a total of five years?
Gives eligible veterans opportunities in appointments over many other applicants.
What is a Pass-over of a veteran?
Veterans get this advantage over nonveterans in a reduction in force if they meet the requirements.
What is Veterans Preference in RIF?
This guide is used to validate veterans preference and veterans preference requirements.
What is the Vet Guide?
The length of a probationary period for newly hired veterans.
What is a two-year probationary period?
Information on USERRA can be found at this Department's website.
What is the US Department of Labor or www.dol.gov?
Non-selection of a veteran-preference eligible on a certificate (referral list) to appoint a lower-ranking non-veteran (provided the agency first submits reasons that OPM finds sufficient).
What is a Pass-over of a veteran?
0-Points are given for this type of preference, but allows entitled person to be listed ahead of non-preference eligibles with the same score or ahead of non-preference eligibles in the same quality category on a certificate.
What is Sole Survivorship Preference (SSP)?
Type of discharge that is usually used for entry-level separations, or separations from the military in the first 180 days of service and is not considered Honorable or General.
What is "Uncharacterized" discharge?
These jobs are restricted to preference eligibles when they are available.
What are Guards, Elevator Operators, Messengers, and Custodians?
For service of 180 days or more, an application for reemployment must be submitted to the employer NLT how many days after completion of military service.
What is NLT 90 days after completion of a person's military service?
Alternative ranking and selection procedure authorized under the Chief Human Capital Offiers Act of 2002 and is part of the competitive examining process.
What is Category Rating?
A veteran who served at any time and who has a compensable service-connected disability rating of at least 10 percent but less than 30 percent.
What is 10-Point Compensable Disability Preference (CP)
Any written document from the armed forces that certified the service member is expected to be discharged or released from active duty service in the armed forces under honorable conditions within 120 days after submission of document.
What is "Certification" or "Certification Letter"?
This hiring authority permits non-competitive temp of more than 60 days or a term appointment to eligible disabled veterans that meet all qualification requirements. The employee may be converted to a career or career-conditional appointment at any time during the temp or term appointment.
What is a 30 percent or more disabled veteran?
This is the time limit for filing a USERRA appeal with the Board
What is "there is no time limit" for filing a USERRA appeal with the board?
This principle requires that each returning service member be reemployed in the position the person would have occupied with reasonable certainty if the person had remained continuously employed, with full seniority.
What is "Escalator" position or principle?
This "Act" became effective January 7, 2016 and expands preference eligibility from the mother of a deceased/disabled vet unable to use his/her preference to the parent of that service member.
What is the Gold Star Father's Act of 2015 (Derived Veterans' Preference for Parents)?
This "Act" requires Federal agencies to treat certain active duty service members as preference eligibles for purposes of an appointment in the competitive or excepted service, even though the service members are not discharged/released from active duty.
What is the Veterans Opportunity to Work (VOW) to Hire Heroes Act of 2011?