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Agencies Required to Establish Management Succession Programs Agencies are required under the newly enacted Federal Workforce Flexibility Act of 2004 to establish, in consultation with the Office of Personnel Management, management succession programs designed to groom employees into managerial ranks. Under section 201 of the act, which amends 5 U.S.C. 4103 by adding a new section 4121, the programs are to cover manager training "on actions, options and strategies" that managers can use "to address mentoring employees, improving employee performance and productivity, conducting performance appraisals, and unacceptable performance," according to an OPM memo covering changes in pay and leave administration, benefits and other HR policies resulting from the act. It said the act also requires agencies to regularly evaluate all training programs as to how well they accomplish or promote performance plans and strategic goals. The memo can be found at: http://www.opm.gov/oca/compmemo/2004/2004-22.asp 2. NSPS Regulation Writing Has Begun Defense Department officials have started writing rules to put in place the alternative civilian personnel authorities that DoD received a year ago under a budget law, although the Pentagon is saying that the rules more likely will come out in January rather than in December as had been previously indicated. The draft rules will have to be vetted through the Office of Personnel Management and Office of Management and Budget before being published for comment. The proposed rules on the "national security personnel system" need to be issued relatively soon in order for DoD to meet its goal of starting the first phase of the program in July of next year. The participating components should be announced soon. That "spiral one" will be followed by at least two other phases, with at least parts of the system ultimately affecting some 650,000 employees. Most recently, executives from DoD components met to consider various design options for compensation architecture, pay for performance, pay pool composition, hiring and internal movement, promoting good performance and conduct, reduction in force policy and training and supervisory certification for the "national security personnel system." 3. Union Seeks Judgment to Stop IRS From Contracting Mailroom Jobs The National Treasury Employees Union has announced it is seeking summary judgment against the Internal Revenue Service to stop it from contracting out mailroom positions without competing them, saying it is illegal to not do so. Just 50 positions are in question, but if NTEU won its motion for summary judgment, IRS would have to stop its reduction in force, which the union said it has been trying to achieve since May when it initiated the suit on the grounds that IRS is in violation of the fiscal 2004 Consolidated Appropriations Act. 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