OPM has published a proposed rule to amend the regulations for the Combined Federal Campaign that it says is designed to increase the CFC’s accessibility, accountability, transparency and affordability.
Mangers sometimes lose employee work hours to carrying out the CFC. Key areas of change in the proposed rule include moving the solicitation period to October 1 – January 15, providing new employees the opportunity to make a payroll deduction within 30 days of being hired, and the creation of a new disaster relief program.
Local Federal Coordinating Committees will now be consolidated into Regional Coordinating Committees and their responsibilities will be reduced, while pledges will be made online – completely eliminating cash, check or money order contributions.
Campaign administration functions also will be consolidated into one or more central campaign administrators, and federal payroll offices will also either disburse funds directly to participating charities or be required to provide detailed reports to the central campaign administrator that will perform this function, OPM said.
It said the consolidations should help with an ongoing problem of finding enough volunteers to run the campaigns, but some charities have expressed concern that donations may go down if the effort loses its localized nature.
