DEPARTMENT OF NAVY ADVERSE ACTIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00530R000400690010-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 30
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 4, 2012
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: March 22, 1983
• Content Type: MISC

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OPNAVINST 12000.14 CH-47
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File Immediately Following Chapter 752 of the FPM
DEPARTMENT OF NAVY ADVERSE ACTIONS
1. PURPOSE
This instruction establishes the Department of the Navy
(DON) regulations for effecting adverse actions and provides
guidance in disciplinary actions.
II. DEFINITIONS
A. "Activity" means a field installation, headquarters
command, or office.
B. "Appealable Adverse Action" means a removal, suspensions
for more than 14 days, reduction in grade or pay, or furlough
for 30 days or less.
C. "Days" means calendar days. -
D. "Employee" means:
1. For purpose of grievable-advers, actions, a member
of the Senior Executive Service or an individual in the
competitive service who is not serving a probationary or trial
period under an initial appointment or who has completed one
year of current continuous employment under other than a
temporary appointment limited to one year or less; and-
2. For purpose of appealable adverse actions:
a. those employees listed in Dl,
b. a preference eligi e in the excepted service
who has completed one year of current continuous service in the
same or similar position, and
--j c. an employee who occupies a professional and
administrative career (PAC) position on Schedule B of part 213
of the title, provided that the employee has completed a trial
period of one year after initial appointment in such a position.
E. "Furlough" means the placing of an employee in a'
temporary status without duties and pay because of a lack of
work or funds or other nondisciplinary reasons.
F. "Grade" means a level of classification under a position
classification system.
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G. "Grievable Adverse Action" means a letter of reprimand
or a suspension for 14 Jays or less.
H. ?Letter of Admonishment" means a written correction by a
superior official of an employee's improper conduct.
I: "Letter of Rev? imand" means a written remedy by a
superior official for an employee's improper conduct.
J. "Nonconte3table Action" means an oral admonishment or a
letter of admonishment, i.e., an action not recorded in an
employee's Officia-1 Personnel' Folder.
K. "Official" means an employer who has been delegated
authorityto propose or decide an adverse action under this
instruction.
L. "Oral Admonishment" moans an oral (non-written)
correction by superior official of an employee's improper
conduct.
M. "Pay" means the rate of basic pay fixed by law or
administrative action for the position held by an employee.
N. "Removal" means the involuntary separation of an
employee from the activity except when taken as a reduction-in-
force action.
0. "Suspension" means tho placing of an employee in a
temporary status without duties or pay--for disciplinary reasons.
This instruction applies to all Department of Navy employees
as defined in II.D. above except:
A. An employee of a non-appropriated fund instrumentality;
---~ d. Schedule D excepted service employees without compe-
titive status, and Schedule B professional and career (PAC)
position employees who are serving their one-year trial period; 4---
C. An employee whose appointment is made by and with the
advice and consent of the Senate;
D. An employee whose position has been determined to be of
a confidential, policy-determining, policy-making or policy-
advocating character by:
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1. The Office of Personnel Management for a position
that it has excepted from the competitive service; or
2. The President or the Secretary of the Navy for a
position which is excepted from the competitive service by
statute, and
9. Reduction in-grade or pay and furlough for 30 days or
less for a member of the Senior Executive Service;
F. Ybr suspensions of 14. days or less, members of the
Senior Executive Service and employees as defined in IID2b.
"'* G. Removal or suspension for more than 14 days of a
noncareer, limited term, or limited emergency Senior Executive
Service appointee; or such removal or suspension of a career SES
member during the probationary period who,-by virtue of the
appointment held immediately prior to entry into the SES, was
not covered.*-
A. A suspension or removal taken in the interests of
national security. (5 USC 7532)
B. A reduction-in-force--action.
C. The reduction in grade of a supervisor or manager who
has not satisfactorily completed the probationary period if such
reduction is to the grade held immediately before becoming such
a supervisor or manager. (5 USC 3321)
D. A reduction in grade or removal based solely on
unacceptable performance. (5 USC 4303)
E. An action initiated under authority of the Special
Counsel or taken at the direction of the Merit Systems
Protection Board. (5 USC 1205, 1206, 1207)
P. An action taken under provision of statute, other than
one codified in S USC, which excepts the action from subchapter
iI of Chapter 75 of 5 USC.
0. An action which entitles an employee to grade retention
and an action to terminate this entitlement. (5 USC 5362)
B. A voluntary action initiated by the employee.
1. An action taken or directed by the office of Personnel
Management for suitability reasons. (5 C ER Parts 731 and '154)
J. 'Intiroluntary retirmsnt because of disability.
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CPI 752
R. .Termination of appointment on the expiration date
specified as a basic condition of employment at the time the
appointment was made.
L. Action which terminates a temporary promotion within a
-maximum period of two years and returns the employee to the posi-
tion from which temporarily promoted, or reassigns or demotes the
employee to a different position not at a lower grade or level
than the position from which temporarily promoted.
M. An action which terminates a term promotion at the
completion of the project or a specified period, or at the end of
a-rotational assignment in excess of two years but not more than
five years, and returns the employee to the position from which
promoted or to a position of equivalent grade and pay.
N. Cancellation of a prom"tion to a position not classified
prior to the promotion.
0. Placement of an employee serving on an intermittent,
part-time, or seasonal basis in a nonduty, nonpay status in
acccordance with conditions established at the time of
appointment.
P. Reduction--of an employee's rate of pay from a rate which
is contrary to law or regulation to a rate which is required or
permitted by law or regulation.
Q. An action against a .reemployed annuitant.
R. An action against a Presidential appointee.
V. DELEGATION OF AUTHORITY
Beads of activities are delegated authority to propose and
decide adverse actions under this instruction. Activity heads
shall redelegate authority to propose and decide such actions to
subordinate supervisors and managers to the extent they deem
appropriate.
VI. STANDARD FOR ACTION
A. Activities shall take an adverse action against an
employee only for such cause as will promote the efficiency of the
service.
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