Federal Employee Performance Rating Systems Need Fundamental Changes

The Performance Rating Act of 1950 requires performance evaluations and ratings through use of one or more performance rating plans subject to approval of the Civil Service Commission (CSC). It requires that each system provide for making performance requirements known to the employee, giving fair appraisals of employee performance, using appraisals to improve employee performance, strengthening supervisor-employee relationships, and keeping employees advised of their performance and promptly notified of ratings.