Office of Personnel Management January 2024 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Office of Personnel Management is issuing final regulations governing the criteria for making salary determinations based on salary history to advance pay equity in the General Schedule, prevailing rate, Administrative Appeals Judge, Administrative Law Judge, Senior Executive Service, and senior-level and scientific or professional pay systems. For individuals receiving their first appointment as a civilian employee of the Federal Government (or a reappointment after a break in service) in one of these pay systems, agencies will not be able to set pay based on a job candidate's non- Federal salary or pay history, which could vary between equally qualified candidates, or based on a competing job offer. Agencies will also be required to have policies regarding setting pay based on a previous Federal salary for employees who have previous civilian service in the Federal Government.

According to the provisions of section 10 of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, notice is hereby given that a virtual meeting of the Federal Prevailing Rate Advisory Committee will be held on Thursday, February 15, 2024. There will be no in-person gathering for this meeting.

This document reopens the comment period for the proposed rules entitled ``Federal Independent Dispute Resolution Operations'' that appeared in the November 3, 2023, issue of the Federal Register. The comment period for the proposed rules, which closed on January 2, 2024, is reopened from January 22, 2024 to February 5, 2024.

Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Healthcare and Insurance, Federal Employee Insurance Operations offers the general public and other Federal agencies the opportunity to comment on the reinstatement of an expired information collection request (ICR) without change, Designation of Beneficiary: Federal Employees' Group Life Insurance, Standard Form 2823. OPM is requesting approval that this form be designated as a ``Common Form''.