OGE: any agency-specific supplemental ethical rules of the receiving agency begin to apply after 30 days. Image: The KonG/Shutterstock.com
By: FEDweek StaffThe Office of Government Ethics has issued guidance on ethical policies for federal employees who are detailed to work temporarily at a different agency, addressing issues that it said had been in some question because the Standards of Ethical Conduct largely do not address such temporary assignments.
“Because the concerns addressed by the Standards are relevant to a detailee’s positions with both their home and receiving agencies, OGE has determined that the application of the Standards to detailees should be based on both of those positions,” the guidance says. “Therefore, a detailee is expected to continue to adhere to the Standards in the same manner as any other employee of their home agency and as though they were an employee of the receiving agency as well.”
It adds: “OGE recognizes that agencies may encounter situations where the application of the Standards to a detailee is unclear due to the overlapping ethics requirements at a detailee’s home and receiving agencies. Therefore, ethics officials may need to facilitate coordination between home and receiving agencies to appropriately advise detailees of their ethics requirements.”
The advisory also says that: any agency-specific supplemental ethical rules of the receiving agency begin to apply to a detailee after 30 days; a detailee must file any required financial disclosure report with the home agency, unless such a disclosure is required only by the receiving agency; and the home agency remains responsible for ensuring the detailee receives their required ethics training—although that training can occur at the receiving agency.
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