WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 -- Office Of Personnel Management has issued a rule called: Recruitment and Relocation Incentive Waivers.

The rule was published in the Federal Register on Dec. 15 by Jerson Matias, Federal Register Liaison.

Summary: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing a final rule to expand the authority to approve waivers of the normal payment limitations on recruitment and relocation incentives. An expansion of the waiver approval authority provides agencies with access to higher payment limitations for these flexibilities without requesting approval from OPM. In addition, this final rule gives agencies flexibility to set the length of the required service period for recruitment incentives to a period less than 6 mon...