Presidential Document2025-05217
Strengthening the Suitability and Fitness of the Federal Workforce
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Published
March 25, 2025
Signed
March 20, 2025
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 56 (Tuesday, March 25, 2025)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 13683-13684]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-05217]
Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 90, No. 56 / Tuesday, March 25, 2025 /
Presidential Documents
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Memorandum of March 20, 2025
Strengthening the Suitability and Fitness of the
Federal Workforce
Memorandum for the Director of the Office of Personnel
Management
By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, it is hereby ordered:
Section 1. Delegation of Authority to Make Suitability
Determinations and Required Rulemaking. (a) The
Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is
delegated the authority to make final suitability
determinations and take suitability actions regarding
employees in the executive branch based on post-
appointment conduct, consistent with applicable law. In
this context, a suitability action can include a
directive by OPM to the head of an executive department
or agency (agency) to remove an employee who does not
meet the suitability criteria defined in OPM's
regulations.
(b) The Director of OPM shall propose regulations,
consistent with applicable law, amending Part 731 of
title 5, Code of Federal Regulations, to account for
the delegation described in subsection (a) of this
section and to implement appropriate rules and
procedures regarding suitability determinations and
suitability actions based on post-appointment conduct.
The delegation described in subsection (a) of this
section shall not be effective until the completion of
this rulemaking.
(c) In drafting the regulations described in
subsection (b) of this section, the Director of OPM
shall consider requiring that an employing agency must
make a referral to OPM in order for the Director of OPM
to make a final suitability determination and take a
suitability action regarding an employee based on post-
appointment conduct.
(d) The regulations described in subsection (b) of
this section shall additionally propose that,
consistent with Civil Service Rule 5.3, if the Director
of OPM issues specific instructions as to separation or
other corrective action with regard to an employee,
including cancellation of a personnel action, the head
of the agency concerned shall comply with the Director
of OPM's instructions within 5 work days of the final
decision.
Sec. 2. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this
memorandum shall be construed to impair or otherwise
affect:
(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or
the head thereof; or
(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget
relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(b) This memorandum shall be implemented consistent
with applicable law and subject to the availability of
appropriations.
(c) This memorandum is not intended to, and does
not, create any right or benefit, substantive or
procedural, enforceable at 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.
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(d) The Director of OPM is authorized and directed
to publish this memorandum in the Federal Register.
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[FR Doc. 2025-05217
Filed 3-24-25; 8:45 am]
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