Retention incentives for employees likely to leave for a different position in the Federal service.

CFR · 2024-01-01 · US · Title 5

(a) (i) Given the agency's mission requirements and employee's competencies, the agency has a special need for the employee's services that makes it essential to retain the employee in his or her current position during a period of time before the closure or relocation of the employee's office, facility, activity, or organization; and (ii) The employee would be likely to leave for a different position in the Federal service in the absence of a retention incentive. (2) An agency in its sole and exclusive discretion, subject only to OPM review and oversight, may approve a retention incentive for a group or category of employees (subject to the exclusions in § 575.305(c)) under the conditions prescribed in this section when the agency determines that— (i) Given the agency's mission requirements and employees' competencies, the agency has a special need for the employees' services that makes it essential to retain the employees in their current positions during a period of time before the closure or relocation of the employees' office, facility, activity, or organization; and (ii) There is a high risk that a significant number of the employees in the group would be likely to leave for different positions in the Federal service in the absence of a retention incentive. (b) (1) The employee holds a position listed in § 575.303, and is not excluded by § 575.304; (2) The employee's rating of record (or an official performance appraisal or evaluation under a system not covered by 5 U.S

official document · source cfr-2024 · id 5:§ 575.314