Civil Service Retirement System and Federal Employees' Retirement System: Secondary Position Definitions

What it does

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) proposes to amend its retirement regulations to revise the definition of secondary position for law enforcement officers, firefighters, nuclear materials couriers, and customs and border protection officers. The changes remove the requirement that experience in a primary position is a mandatory prerequisite for an executive level position. This change will provide agencies with greater flexibility when recruiting for executive positions. Agencies retain the discretion to require experience in a primary position as a mandatory prerequisite to their secondary positions.

The Personnel Management Office's summary, as published in the Federal Register.

What it would change

2 parts of Title 5 of the Code of Federal Regulations:

5 CFR 831, 5 CFR 842

Before this

No earlier Federal Register document under regulation identifier 3206-AO72 since Jan. 1, 2025.

What happens next and when

Comments must be received on or before March 6, 2026.

The agency's dates, word for word.

Check it yourself

• The document in the Federal Register
• Docket OPM-2024-0020 on Regulations.gov
• Title 5 on eCFR

The record as published

Source: the Federal Register (public domain). The document in the Federal Register