The “fully successful” level is the middle level of the five-level rating system in common use by federal agencies - with the vast majority at or above that rating. Image: Andrii Yalanskyi/Shutterstock.com
By: FEDweek StaffOPM has told agencies to compile and send to it a list of their employees who have received a performance rating below “fully successful” in the last three years and to describe what steps have been taken regarding them.
The requirement to provide that information by March 7 is part of a memo on chcoc.gov on “developing new performance metrics for evaluating the federal workforce that aligns with the priorities and standards” of several Trump administration executive orders.
“All agencies should submit data regarding their performance management plans and policies—including those contained in collective bargaining agreements— and identify any barriers to ensuring that 1) agency performance plans make meaningful distinctions based on relative employee performance and 2) the agency has the ability to swiftly terminate poor performing employees who cannot or will not improve,” it says.
It also asks agencies to identify any internal or government-wide policies that they consider as hampering them “from making meaningful distinctions based on relative employee performance” or the “ability to swiftly separate low-performing employees.”
Regarding individual employees rated below fully successful in the last three years, the memo calls for information on name, job title, pay plan, series, grade, agency, component, and duty station; whether that employee is under or successfully completed a performance improvement plan within the last 12 months; whether the agency has already proposed and issued a decision on disciplinary action on performance or conduct grounds and the outcome of any such decision; and whether such an action is currently on appeal at the MSPB or other appeals process.
The “fully successful” level is the middle level of the five-level rating system in common use by federal agencies and typically only low single-digit percentages of employees are rated below it (“minimally successful” or “unacceptable”). Some agencies, or parts of them, have other ratings systems; the memo does not address those.
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