WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 -- Office Of Personnel Management has issued a rule called: Hiring Authority for College Graduates.
The rule was published in the Federal Register on Feb. 20 by Jerson Matias, Federal Register Liaison.
Summary: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing a final rule to amend its career and career-conditional employment regulations. The revision is necessary to implement the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2019. This statute requires OPM to issue regulations establishing a hiring authority for college graduates into positions at specified grades in the competitive service. The intended effect of the authority is to provide additional flexibility in hiring eligible a...