A step 4 on the GS scale and a step 2 on the FWS scale.
What is a representative rate?
100
A code denoting a group of employees that a union represents
What is Bargaining Unit Status code
100
Given to certain veterans and/or family members for entitlement in appointment or reduction-in-force.
What is veteran's preference?
100
The change of an employee from one position to another without a promotion or change to lower grade
What is a reassignment
100
A payment made to encourage a permanent employee to resign or retire
What is Voluntary Separation Incentive Pay
200
A periodic increase in an employee's rate of basic pay from one step of the grade to the next higher step.
What is a within-grade increase?
200
Performance that fails the established standards for one or more critical elements
What is Poor Performance
200
A special authority that can be used to appoint eligible veterans without competition up to the GS-11 or equivalent.
What is the Veteran's Recruitment Appointment Authority?
200
A temporary non-pay status and an authorized absence from duty
What is a leave without pay
200
The allowance of agencies to temporarily lower the age and service requirements in order to increase the number of employees who are eligible for retirement
What is Voluntary Early Retirement Authority
300
An award used to recognize outstanding performance by increasing an employee's basic pay by one step.
What is a quality step increase?
300
An impartial third party to whom disputing parties submit their differences for a decision/award
What is an arbitrator
300
The act that allows eligible veterans to apply for positions announced under merit promotion procedures when recruiting outside an agency's workforce.
What is the Veterans Employment Opportunity Act?
300
An action used to change information on an earlier action due to error or to add information that was omitted
What is a correction
300
The pay entitlement when someone has completed 52 consecutive weeks at a higher grade and is being changed to a lower grade during a RIF
What is grade retention
400
The conversion of an employee's rate of basic pay upon movement to a new duty location.
What is geographic conversion?
400
Grievance system for disputes not covered by a collective bargaining agreement
What is administrative grievance procedure
400
Submission when management wants to select a preference eligible over a non-preference eligible.
What is a pass over?
400
The change of an employee from one appointment to another appointment in the same agency with no break in service or with a break of less than 3 days
What is a conversion
400
Boundaries in which employees compete for retention in a RIF
What is a competitive area
500
When an employee keeps a rate of basic pay that exceeds the maximum step of the position they are assigned to.
What is pay retention?
500
A formal document that provides an employee a reasonable opportunity period to demonstrate acceptable performance after an unacceptable performance rating
What is a Performance Improvement Plan
500
The Act that prohibits discrimination against and protects the rights of persons because of their service in the uniformed services.
What is the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act?
500
The placement of an employee in temporary nonpay/nonduty status because of lack of work or funds
What is furlough
500
Displacement by means of going back to a job the employee once held, or one that is determined to be essentially identicle