VeOA is a competing promotion authority that allows legitimate Veterans to apply for advertised positions under merit promotion procedures when the Agency recruits from outside its own staff. To be eligible for a VEOA appointment, your last dismissal must be delivered under honourable conditions (meaning honorary or general dismissal), and you must either: The Portability of Benefits for Nonappropriated Fund Employees Act 1990 (Pub). L. 101-508) allows the service to have a non-misappropriated fund instrument (NAFI) to determine the salaries and benefits of a NAFI Ministry of Defense (DOD) staff member, who is on a dod official`s date, and a NAFI coastguard officer who, on 1, 1987, but only if the worker changes from a length of service of more than 3 days. Public Law 104-106 (10 February 1996) also amended the Portability Act to allow certain pension benefits with working hours not exceeding one year. To be covered by those provisions, an appointment may be made on the basis of the current interchange agreement or other appointing authority. An exchange agreement allows current federal employees of the excluded service to apply for transportation positions in the competition department. Competitive examination is the traditional method of appointment to competitive service positions and requires compliance with the competition review requirements of Title 5. OPM may, by mutual agreement, delegate authority to an agency to review all of its competitive service positions (with the exception of administrative judges). Vacancies filled under the competitive examination procedure are public. This agreement includes staff assigned to the Office of the Inspector General (OIG).

The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) provides the following list of major appointing agencies that can use agencies to make career and career appointments. OPM established this list to support federal personnel specialists. The list contains quotes about the applicable law. It also contains the conditions applicable to appointments under exchange agreements concluded between an agency and the OPM. OPM also provides an incomplete list of legal appointing authorities outside of Title 5, United States Code (5 U.S.C.). The OPM does not regulate the appointing authorities outside of Title 5. For a description of the authorities that are not Title 5, agencies should consult the cited laws.

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