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POLICY #2 - Intern Promotion, Conversion and Termination
Promotion
Upon meeting appropriate eligibility and performance requirements, interns may
receive a non-competitive promotion to the next higher grade within their
career ladder positions while participating in the ELP.
Promotion is not assumed or guaranteed in the ELP.
ELP Evaluation Review Board (ERB) has the responsibility of recommending
interns for promotion. After recommendation has been made, Operating Division
coordinators will contact their HR department to ensure that appropriate
documentation is completed and processed.
Interns must be in their current grade level for one (1) year prior to being
promoted to next level. Recommendations of early promotions must be approved by
ERB and Operating Division home office supervisor.
Conversion
Interns who successfully complete ELP and meet suitability and performance
requirements may be granted competitive civil service status non-competitively.
Upon conversion, the employee is not required to serve a probationary period.
Career interns on a two-year agency-approved without a break in service can be
converted to competitive service from excepted. Their previous time in service
will meet the requirements for probationary purposes, and they should only
serve an additional year or the time necessary to add up to three years total.
This is covered under 5 CFR 315.201 Service Requirement for Career Tenure. The
two years under the career intern program meets the definition of creditable
service. See 315.201(b)(1)(xix).
Within HHS, an employee who formerly held a career or career-conditional
appointment immediately before entering the Program and who fails to complete
the Program for reasons unrelated to misconduct or suitability will be placed
in a career or career-conditional position in HHS at no lower pay than the one
the employee left to accept the position in the ELP.
Termination
An intern's appointment expires at the end of the two (2) year internship
period. Appointments may be terminated earlier for unacceptable performance,
conduct, and failure to meet program expectations.
Interns who are not converted to career or career-conditional appointment or
those who are not returned to career/career-conditional employment as described
in the conversion must be terminated. Terminations of appointments under this
Program are not adverse actions.
Examples of terminating offenses:
Skipping training events sponsored by HHS;
Subverting the approval of HHS program administrators, Operating Division
coordinator or Operating Division home office supervisor;
Failure to meet expectations on home office evaluations;
Falsifying time and attendance documents;
Other activities listed as conditions of employment by Operating Division and
accepted Federal service.
Last revised:
September 25, 2006
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