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
• 930-2: Volunteer Service for Providing Health Care (Title 42), Effective Date: 06/06/1997
  930-2: Volunteer Service for Providing Health Care (Title 42) (DOC), Effective Date: 06/06/1997

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: 07/22/2022
• 301-1: Overseas Employment, Effective Date: 12/15/2022
• 302-1: Employment in the Excepted Service, Effective Date: 10/30/2020
• 304-1: Appointment of Experts and Consultants, Effective Date: 06/05/2020
• 308-1: Student Volunteer Service Program, Effective Date: 02/12/2014
• 315-1: Probationary and Trial Periods, Effective Date: 08/19/2021
• 330-2: Priority Placement Programs (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL and PRL), Effective Date: 10/27/2022
• 362-1: Pathways Programs, Effective Date: 08/19/2021
  • OPM-HHS Pathways Programs MOU, 09/26/2022
• 1104-1: Delegated Examining Operations, Effective Date: 08/03/2020
  • OPM/HHS Interagency Delegated Examining Agreement 2011
• OHR Guidance, Attorneys, Law Clerks, and Legal Interns, Effective Date: 06/17/2022
• OHR Guidance, Schedule A Persons With Disabilities, Effective date 06/15/2020
• OHR Guidance Post-Secondary Students and College Graduates, Effective Date 10/27/2022

Reduction in Force

• 351-1: Reduction in Force (RIF), Effective Date: 12/22/2020

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 11/22/2022
  • Operating Divisions have until January 1, 2023, to implement this policy update.
• HHS PMAP Implementation Guidance, Effective 11/22/2022
• HHS PMAP Handbook, Resource Guide for Supervisors and Employees, Effective Date: 11/2022
• 430-6: Performance Management for Members of the Senior Executive Service (SES), Effective Date: 12/01/2010
  430-6: Performance Management for Members of the Senior Executive Service (SES) (DOC), Effective Date: 12/01/2010

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: 12/10/2010
  531-1: Setting Pay Based on Superior Qualifications and Special Needs (DOC), Effective Date: 12/10/2010
• 531-2: Setting Salary; revision, Effective Date: 05/20/1996
  531-2: Setting Salary; revision (DOC), Effective Date: 05/20/1996
• 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: 01/26/2009
  532-1: Pay Setting - Federal Wage System (FWS) (DOC), Effective Date: 01/26/2009
• 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, Effective Date: 03/19/2007
  537-1: Student Loan Repayment Program Policy (DOC), Effective Date: 03/19/2007
• 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

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
• 610-3: Establishing Appointment Effective Dates, Effective Date: 10/21/2011
  610-3: Establishing Appointment Effective Dates (DOC), Effective Date: 10/21/2011
• 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
• 990-1, Workplace Flexibilities, Effective Date: 02/09/2022 - non-bargaining unit employees
• 990-1.2: Telework Policy, Effective Date: 11/18/2011 - bargaining unit employees

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: 4/17/17

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 8/15/2019

See Performance Management for HHS SES Performance Management policy (430-6)

Miscellaneous

• Nursing Mothers Guidance, Effective Date:  6/18/19 (SME: Office of Assistant Secretary for Health)