Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies on the PEER Initiative: Protecting Employees, Enabling Reemployment, 12808-12810 [2020-04390]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Office of Workers’ Compensation
Programs
Memorandum for the Heads of
Executive Departments and Agencies
on the PEER Initiative: Protecting
Employees, Enabling Reemployment
The Office of Management
and Budget has directed the Secretary of
Labor to publish a memorandum on the
PEER Initiative in the Federal Register,
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as part of the President’s Management
Agenda—Modernizing Government for
the 21st Century and the President’s
Initiative to Stop Opioid Abuse and
Reduce Drug Supply and Demand.
Federal agencies and the United States
Postal Service are expected to improve
or maintain performance in seven areas
related to work-related injuries.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Each year,
federal civilian employees sustain workrelated injuries and illnesses. In 2018,
federal workers filed almost 107,000
new claims and received approximately
$3 billion in workers’ compensation
payments. Many of these work-related
injuries and illnesses are preventable,
and executive departments and agencies
can and should do more to improve
workplace safety and health, improve
efficiencies, reduce the financial burden
of injury on taxpayers, and relieve
unnecessary suffering by workers and
their families.
Therefore, the Protecting Employees,
Enabling Reemployment (PEER)
Initiative is being created to set forth
goals to achieve these important
objectives and supports the President’s
Management Agenda—Modernizing
Government for the 21 Century and the
President’s Initiative to Stop Opioid
Abuse and Reduce Drug Supply and
Demand. Federal agencies and the
United States Postal Service are
expected to improve or maintain
performance in seven areas:
1. Reducing total injury and illness
case rates;
2. reducing lost-time injury and
illness case rates;
3. increasing the timely filing rate for
workers’ compensation claims;
4. increasing the timely filing rate for
wage-loss claims;
5. increasing the rate of return-towork outcomes during the initial 45 day
post-injury period for traumatic injury
cases;
6. improving the rate at which
employees return to work in cases of
moderate to severe injury or illness; and
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7. implementing and fully using the
Department of Labor’s electronic filing
system.
Goals one through six measure
reductions in workplace injuries,
reductions in time off work because of
injuries, improvements in return-towork, and improving the rate of timely
filed claims, all of which help relieve
unnecessary suffering by workers and
reduce the financial burden of injury on
taxpayers. The seventh goal will
standardize the claims process. It will
also aid in direct and immediate
communication with an injured
employee, facilitating prompt treatment
and providing critical opioid awareness
and pain education.
Executive departments and agencies
shall coordinate with the Department of
Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health
Administration and Office of Workers’
Compensation Programs to develop
strategies aimed at achieving
performance targets in each category.
The Secretary of Labor shall lead the
initiative by measuring both
government-wide and agency-level
performance. Each executive
department and agency shall bear its
own costs for participating in the PEER
Initiative. Nothing in this memorandum
shall be construed to impair or
otherwise affect the authority granted by
law to an executive department or
agency, or the head thereof. This
memorandum is not intended to, and
does not, create any right or benefit,
substantive or procedural, enforceable
by law or in equity by any party against
the United States; its departments,
agencies, or entities; its officers,
employees, or agents; or any other
person.
Signed at Washington, DC, this 26th day of
February, 2020.
Julia K. Hearthway,
Director, Office of Workers’ Compensation
Programs.
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ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES
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Services
Submission for OMB Review,
Comment Request, Proposed
Collection Requests: Museum
Capacity-Building Programs
Assessment Project
Institute of Museum and
Library Services, National Foundation
on the Arts and the Humanities.
ACTION: Submission for OMB review,
comment request.
AGENCY:
The Institute of Museum and
Library Services announces the
following information collection has
been submitted to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and approval in accordance with
the Paperwork Reduction Act. This
program helps to ensure that requested
data can be provided in the desired
format, reporting burden (time and
financial resources) is minimized,
collection instruments are clearly
understood, and the impact of collection
requirements on respondents can be
properly assessed. The purpose of this
Notice is to solicit comments about this
assessment process, instructions and
data collections.
A copy of the proposed information
collection request can be obtained by
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contacting the individual listed below
in the ADDRESSES section of this notice.
DATES: Written comments must be
submitted to the office listed in the FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section
below on or before April 3, 2020.
OMB is particularly interested in
comments that help the agency to:
• Evaluate whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of the
functions of the agency, including
whether the information will have
practical utility;
• Evaluate the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
• Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and
• Minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who
are to respond, including through the
use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology
(e.g., permitting electronic submission
of responses).
ADDRESSES: Comments should be sent to
Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs, Attn.: OMB Desk Officer for
Education, Office of Management and
Budget, Room 10235, Washington, DC
20503, (202) 395–7316.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
Christopher Reich, Institute of Museum
and Library Services, 955 L’Enfant Plaza
North SW, Suite 4000, Washington, DC
20024–2135. Mr. Reich can be reached
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by Telephone: 202–653–4685, Fax: 202–
653–4601, or by email at creich@
imls.gov, or by teletype (TTY/TDD) for
persons with hearing difficulty at 202–
653–4614.
The
Institute of Museum and Library
Services is the primary source of federal
support for the nation’s libraries and
museums. We advance, support, and
empower America’s museums, libraries,
and related organizations through grant
making, research, and policy
development. Our vision is a nation
where museums and libraries work
together to work together to transform
the lives of individuals and
communities. To learn more, visit
www.imls.gov.
Current Actions: Over its history, the
Institute of Museum and Library
Services (IMLS) has invested in a wide
range of organizational capacity
building and technical assistance for the
museum sector through grant making
and special initiatives. Through this
project, IMLS seeks to strengthen the
alignment of its investments, and other
offerings in the sector, and understand
the full scope of existing museum
capacity building opportunities,
including but not limited to
organizational assessment, coaching,
cohort learning, self-driven
communities of practice, and self-serve
resources. Through this assessment
project, IMLS seeks to obtain a holistic
view of the museum target audience and
needs for capacity building support,
identify potential gaps in the suite of
current offerings, and define both
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Office of Workers' Compensation Programs
Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies on
the PEER Initiative: Protecting Employees, Enabling Reemployment
SUMMARY: The Office of Management and Budget has directed the Secretary
of Labor to publish a memorandum on the PEER Initiative in the Federal
Register, as part of the President's Management Agenda--Modernizing
Government for the 21st Century and the President's Initiative to Stop
Opioid Abuse and Reduce Drug Supply and Demand. Federal agencies and
the United States Postal Service are expected to improve or maintain
performance in seven areas related to work-related injuries.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Each year, federal civilian employees
sustain work-related injuries and illnesses. In 2018, federal workers
filed almost 107,000 new claims and received approximately $3 billion
in workers' compensation payments. Many of these work-related injuries
and illnesses are preventable, and executive departments and agencies
can and should do more to improve workplace safety and health, improve
efficiencies, reduce the financial burden of injury on taxpayers, and
relieve unnecessary suffering by workers and their families.
Therefore, the Protecting Employees, Enabling Reemployment (PEER)
Initiative is being created to set forth goals to achieve these
important objectives and supports the President's Management Agenda--
Modernizing Government for the 21 Century and the President's
Initiative to Stop Opioid Abuse and Reduce Drug Supply and Demand.
Federal agencies and the United States Postal Service are expected to
improve or maintain performance in seven areas:
1. Reducing total injury and illness case rates;
2. reducing lost-time injury and illness case rates;
3. increasing the timely filing rate for workers' compensation
claims;
4. increasing the timely filing rate for wage-loss claims;
5. increasing the rate of return-to-work outcomes during the
initial 45 day post-injury period for traumatic injury cases;
6. improving the rate at which employees return to work in cases of
moderate to severe injury or illness; and
7. implementing and fully using the Department of Labor's
electronic filing system.
Goals one through six measure reductions in workplace injuries,
reductions in time off work because of injuries, improvements in
return-to-work, and improving the rate of timely filed claims, all of
which help relieve unnecessary suffering by workers and reduce the
financial burden of injury on taxpayers. The seventh goal will
standardize the claims process. It will also aid in direct and
immediate communication with an injured employee, facilitating prompt
treatment and providing critical opioid awareness and pain education.
Executive departments and agencies shall coordinate with the
Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration and
Office of Workers' Compensation Programs to develop strategies aimed at
achieving performance targets in each category. The Secretary of Labor
shall lead the initiative by measuring both government-wide and agency-
level performance. Each executive department and agency shall bear its
own costs for participating in the PEER Initiative. Nothing in this
memorandum shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect the
authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or the
head thereof. This memorandum is not intended to, and does not, create
any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable by law or
in equity by any party against the United States; its departments,
agencies, or entities; its officers, employees, or agents; or any other
person.
Signed at Washington, DC, this 26th day of February, 2020.
Julia K. Hearthway,
Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs.
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