OPM has issued a memo outlining plans to work with agencies on how to improve the administration and oversight of employee recruitment, relocation and retention incentives.
Last year OPM convened an interagency work group to develop recommendations for improving the administration and oversight of the 3R authorities with a special emphasis on developing approaches for measuring the cost-benefit of the 3Rs program.
Based on the group’s recommendations OPM said it would develop additional guidance and tools to help agencies write stronger justifications for 3Rs authorizations, write improved 3Rs plans, as well as more explicit agency internal monitoring procedures, with greater emphasis on the consideration of the costs and benefits of the 3Rs.
It also plans to issue proposed regulations to require agencies to review all retention incentives and group recruitment incentives at least annually to determine whether they should be revised or discontinued.
