Amending the Civil Service Rules Relating To Federal Employees With Psychiatric Disabilities
Headline: Expands Federal Hiring Rules for Employees With Psychiatric Disabilities
What it does: The order directs the Office of Personnel Management to apply the same hiring rules to people with psychiatric disabilities as other disabled applicants and issue implementing regulations.
- Gives people with psychiatric disabilities the same hiring opportunities as other disabled applicants.
- Allows psychiatric-disabled employees to obtain competitive status after two years of satisfactory excepted service.
- Requires the Office of Personnel Management to issue regulations to implement the change.
Summary
This order changes federal hiring rules so people with psychiatric disabilities get the same opportunities as those with severe physical disabilities or mental retardation. It directs the Office of Personnel Management to amend Civil Service rules and add a provision allowing employees with psychiatric disabilities who complete two years of satisfactory service in excepted positions to obtain competitive status (making them eligible for open federal jobs).
The change is intended to promote equal opportunity and increase federal employment for people with psychiatric disabilities.
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