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Human Resources Policy Library

Title 42 The Public Health Service

  • 42-1: Appointment of 42 U.S.C. § 209(f) Special Consultants, Effective Date: 03/11/2015
  • 42-2: Appointment of 42 U.S.C. § 209(g) Service Fellows, Effective Date: 09/19/2012
    42-2: Appointment of 42 U.S.C. § 209(g) Service Fellows (DOC), Effective Date: 09/19/2012
  • 42-3: Senior Biomedical Research and Biomedical Product Assessment Service (SBRBPAS), Effective Date: 11/10/2022

Position Classification

  • 511-1: Position Classification, Effective Date: 05/16/2018
  • 511-2: Use of Career Ladder Positions, Effective Date: 12/15/2008
    511-2: Use of Career Ladder Positions (DOC), Effective Date: 12/15/2008
  • 511-3: Non-Competitive Promotion Based Upon Reclassification (Accretion of Duties), Effective Date: 10/21/2011
    511-3: Non-Competitive Promotion Based Upon Reclassification (Accretion of Duties) (DOC), Effective Date: 10/21/2011

Recruitment and Employment

  • 300-2: Shared Certs, Effective Date: 02/03/2020
  • 300-3: Details and Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) Assignments, Effective Date: 05/17/2024
  • 301-1: Overseas Employment, Effective Date: 01/16/2025
  • 302-1: Excepted Service Employment, Effective Date: 12/10/2024
  • 304-1: Appointment of Experts and Consultants, Effective Date: 08/18/2023
  • 315-1: Probationary and Trial Periods, Effective Date: 08/18/2023
  • 330-2: Priority Placement Programs (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL and PRL), Effective Date: 04/16/2025
  • 362-1: Pathways Programs, Effective Date: 10/29/2024
  • 1104-1: Delegated Examining Operations, Effective Date: 12/13/2024
    • OPM/HHS Interagency Delegated Examining Agreement 2011
  • OHR Guidance, Attorney, Law Clerk, Legal Intern, and ALJ, Effective Date: 10/02/2024
  • OHR Guidance, Schedule A Persons with Disabilities, Effective Date 05/22/2024
  • OHR Guidance Post-Secondary Students and College Graduates, Effective Date 02/26/2024
  • OHR Guidance, Hiring Assessment Strategies, Effective Date 09/12/2022
  • OHR Guidance, Volunteer Service, Effective Date 09/01/2023

Reduction in Force (RIF)

  • 351-1: RIF (including workforce restructuring actions to avoid RIF), Effective Date: 12/22/2020
  • For SES RIF and Furlough, see Senior Executive Service policy section below

Training

  • 412: Training Requirements for Supervisors, Effective Date: 10/30/2011

Performance Management

  • 293-3: Employee Performance File System Records, Effective Date: 12/06/1996
    293-3: Employee Performance File System Records (DOC), Effective Date: 12/06/1996
  • 430-1: Performance Management Appraisal Program (PMAP), signed 01/01/2023
  • HHS PMAP Implementation Guidance, Effective 11/22/2022
  • HHS PMAP Handbook, Resource Guide for Supervisors and Employees, Effective Date: 01/2025

Awards

  • 451-1: Incentive Awards; revision, Effective Date: 01/2010
    451-1: Incentive Awards; revision (DOC), Effective Date: 01/2010

Pay Administration

  • 531-1: Setting Pay Based on Superior Qualifications and Special Needs, Effective Date: 08/13/2024
  • 531-2: Setting Salary, Effective Date: 08/13/2024
  • 531-4: Within Grade and Quality Step Increases; consolidation of Instructions 531-4 and 531-5, Effective Date: 06/04/1996
    531-4: Within Grade and Quality Step Increases; consolidation of Instructions 531-4 and 531-5 (DOC), Effective Date: 06/04/1996
  • 532-1: Pay Setting - Federal Wage System (FWS), Effective Date: 08/13/2024
  • 532-7: Establishment of Temporary or Seasonal Construction Pay Rates, Effective Date: 05/13/1986
    532-7: Establishment of Temporary or Seasonal Construction Pay Rates (DOC), Effective Date: 05/13/1986
  • 537-1: Student Loan Repayment Program Policy (DOCX), Effective Date: 11/08/2023
  • 550-1: Premium Pay, Effective Date: 01/03/2010
    550-1: Premium Pay (DOC), Effective Date: 01/03/2010
  • 550-3: Compensatory Time Off for Travel, Effective Date: 03/28/2008
    550-3: Compensatory Time Off for Travel (DOC), Effective Date: 03/28/2008
  • 550-11: Compensatory Time Off for Religious Observances, Effective Date: 12/10/2020
  • 550-12: Distribution of Federal Salary and Other Payments By Electronic Funds Transfer; establishment of new Instruction, Effective Date: 07/26/1996
    550-12: Distribution of Federal Salary and Other Payments By Electronic Funds Transfer; establishment of new Instruction (DOC), Effective Date: 07/26/1996
  • 575-1: Recruitment, Relocation and Retention Incentives, Date Issued: 09/30/2013
  • 575-2: Reimbursement of Expenses to Obtain Credentials
    575-2: Reimbursement of Expenses to Obtain Credentials (DOC)
  • 595-1: Physicians' Comparability Allowance, Effective Date: 12/19/2012

Title 38 Physician and Dentist Pay

  • 590-1: Title 38 Physician, Dentist, and Podiatrist Pay, Effective Date 12/17/2021
  • 590-2: Title 38 Variable Work Schedule for Physicians, Effective Date: 12/13/2023

Leave, Absence, and Hours of Duty

  • 610-1: Establishing and Administering Hours of Duty, Effective Date: 12/02/2021
  • 610-2: Temporary Closing of Work Places and Treatment of Absences, Effective Date: 05/30/2008
    610-2: Temporary Closing of Work Places and Treatment of Absences (DOC), Effective Date: 05/30/2008
  • 630-1: Leave and Excused Absence; amended, Effective Date: 12/17/2010
    630-1: Leave and Excused Absence; amended (DOC), Effective Date: 12/17/2010

Worker’s Compensation

  • HHS Office of Human Resources Guidance, Workers’ Compensation Program, Effective Date: 11/15/2024

HHS Telework

  • 990-2, HHS Telework, Effective Date: 3/13/2025
  • HHS Domestic Employees Teleworking Overseas (DETO) policy, Effective Date: 10/01/2024 (Owner: OGA)
  • HHS Guidance, Nursing Mothers, Effective Date:  06/21/2019 (Owner: OASH)

Employee Relations

  • 751-1: Official Reprimands (Abolished except Exhibit 751-1-A), Effective Date: 05/01/1995
    751-1: Official Reprimands (Abolished except Exhibit 751-1-A) (DOC), Effective Date: 05/01/1995
  • 752: Discipline and Adverse Action, Effective Date: 03/20/2009
  • 771-1: Administrative Grievance Procedure (13 pages), Effective Date: 06/05/2008
  • HHS Anti-Harassment Policy and Procedures, Effective Date: 04/17/17

Labor Relations

  • Human Resource Manual Instruction 711 - Labor Relations, Effective Date: 11/08/2024

Senior Executive Service

  • 920-1: Executive Resources Management, Effective Date: 03/20/2008
    920-1: Executive Resources Management (DOC), Effective Date: 03/20/2008
  • 920-2: The Senior Executive Service: Reduction in Force and Furlough, Effective Date: 06/05/1996
    920-2: The Senior Executive Service: Reduction in Force and Furlough (DOC), Effective Date: 06/05/1996
  • OHR Guidance 05-19, SES Position Management, Effective 08/15/2019
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Content last reviewed May 8, 2025
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