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GAO-03-966R 1 (2003-08-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaamhc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: im Accountability * Integrity * Reliability United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 August 22, 2003 The Honorable Kay Coles James Director Office of Personnel Management Subject: Review of Veterans' Preference and the Rule of 3 Dear Ms. James: This is to inform you that the General Accounting Office has completed a review of selected agencies' compliance with veterans' preference and the Rule of 3 in federal hiring. This review was requested by Congressman Lane Evans, Ranking Minority Member of the House Committee on Veterans Affairs, and Senator Tom Daschle. As agreed with the requesters, because of your continuing oversight of agencies' delegated examining units (DEU) and ongoing review of veterans' preference, we are providing you with the results of our review for possible follow-up. The requesters specifically asked us to review the results of job announcements for fiscal year 2001 for five selected agency personnel offices in the Washington Metropolitan Area: the National Aeronautics Space Administration (NASA) headquarters, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) and the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG). As agreed with the requesters, we reviewed: (1) advertised full-time positions (both permanent and temporary) at the GS-7,9,11,13, and 15 levels as identified by the selected agency, (2) the use of multiple certificates in filling these positions, (3) the resulting certificates of eligibilities, including how often veterans headed these certificates and were selected, and (4) the reported reasons why veterans were not selected if they headed these certificates. Our observations may be useful to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) in following up on specific cases, as well as more generally in developing and implementing governmentwide personnel oversight and evaluation efforts. Moreover, based on our understanding of OPM's guidance to the agencies, OPM would consider the type of issues included in our observations when deciding whether more detailed assessments of agency actions by OPM oversight teams would be warranted. We have the following specific observations about the cases examined. Multiple certificates were used extensively. Most of the 258 announcements reviewed resulted in agencies issuing multiple certificates, including multiple DEU certificates and certificates for merit promotion. Multiple DEU certificates were typically issued for GAO-03-966R Veterans' Preference

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