Career Promotion of an Employee in a Position with Known Promotion Potential 4. An employee who satisfactorily completes training under an Office of Personnel Management-approved training agreement which specifically provides for promotion, if the employee was chosen for the training opportunity through competitive procedures. F. Details or Temporary Promotion to a Higher Grade for 120 Days or Less. A series of such assignments each of which is less than 120 days, but cumulatively do not exceed 120 days in the preceding 12 months, may be made. G. Lateral assignments to bargaining unit positions with no greater known promotion potential may be made without regard to this article.
Management has no obligation to reassign employees for hardship reasons.
H. Handicapped employees normally appointed under excepted authority to schedule A may be considered under this plan. A separate certificate of qualified applicants will be prepared. When such persons are selected and are to remain in the excepted service their positions will be removed from the competitive service while they occupy them. I. Upward Mobility Program positions for which selections are made and filled through the merit process. The filling of vacancies subject to the Priority Placement Program shall take precedence over any procedures of the Merit Assignment Program.