The Office of Personnel Management has finalized, in a March
16 Federal Register notice, rules requiring agencies to notify
members of the Senior Executive Service and other employees
in senior positions of certain post-employment conflict-of-
interest restrictions. Agencies must provide written
notification to affected employees of the new salary-based
threshold for determining the applicability of the post-
employment conflict-of-interest restrictions, including when
employment is terminated, under the rules.
The rules were issued under a law that was effective in January
2004 that established a new salary-based threshold for
determining the applicability of certain post-employment
conflict-of-interest restrictions, affecting individuals who
are paid at a rate of basic pay equal to or greater than 86.5
percent of the rate of level II of the Executive Schedule.
