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• Administration Seeks Fewer Performance Awards - JULY 15, 2019
• Trump Administration Calls for Fewer Performance Awards, Stricter Rating System for Feds
  
  
  By Eric Katz, Government Executive
  
  
  The Trump administration has instructed agencies to give out fewer performance-based awards to federal employees and to make it more difficult for workers to receive top performance ratings. 
  
  
  In a pair of complementary memoranda, Office of Personnel Management acting Director Margaret Weichert said agencies should do a better job of providing a meaningful distinction in levels of performance. She simultaneously said agencies should spend less money on rating-based awards in favor of bonuses for “special acts.” 
  
  
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