§1103 Functions of the Director

Summary

Makes the Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) responsible for running OPM and for key actions to keep the federal workforce fair and efficient. The Director must make sure OPM’s work is accurate and fair, hire and manage OPM staff, handle the office’s budget and internal operations, enforce civil service rules and oversee retirement and job classification work, review certain benefit operations, help the President with civil service rules and advice on hiring and pay, run research to improve personnel management, and pay official reception and representation costs within legal limits. The Director must publish public notice of proposed OPM rules that affect others, post them where federal personnel rules are kept, and notify employee representatives and the public when practical, except for temporary emergency rules or routine pay schedules (though the methods used to set pay are covered). OPM must also create, by regulation, systems and measures to judge how well agencies manage their people, including standards for linking HR plans to agency goals and budgets, closing skill gaps, keeping leadership strong, building a performance culture, managing knowledge and training, and holding managers and HR staff accountable.