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Initial Implementing Guidance for Schedule Policy/Career Final Rule (Improving Performance, Accountability and Responsiveness in the Civil Service)

Dear Agency Heads, CHCOs, Deputy CHCOs, and Human Resources Directors:

Today the U.S. Office of Personnel Management's (OPM) Improving Performance, Accountability and Responsiveness in the Civil Service Final Rule was posted for public inspection and will become effective on Monday, March 9, 2026; however, agencies have until Wednesday, April 8, 2026 (30 days after the effective date), to issue internal policies consistent with the new laws and regulations. 

To assist agencies with planning and implementation, today OPM issued a related memorandum titled, "Initial Implementing Guidance for Schedule Policy/Career Final Rule (Improving Performance, Accountability and Responsiveness in the Civil Service)," which provides important guidance to Federal agencies implementing OPM’s Final Rule including the following appendices:

• Answers to Frequently Asked Schedule Policy/Career Final Regulations Questions
  
  
• Prohibited Personnel Practices for Schedule Policy/Career Employees Template
  
  
• Notices to Applicants and Employees of Schedule Policy/Career Templates

Agency CHCOs and/or Human Resources Directors should contact OPM for any additional information using the following contact information:

• Performance Management and Awards: performance-management@opm.gov
• Employee Accountability: employeeaccountability@opm.gov
• Hiring: employ@opm.gov
• Pay policy (severance pay, incentives, student loan repayment program): paypolicy@opm.gov
• Personnel Documentation policy: persaction@opm.gov
• Employees should contact their agency human resources offices for assistance

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