Employees holding career and career candidate positions in a given primary skill code shall not be released from their Competitive Levels within that Primary Skill Code until all employees holding limited, non-career appointments in that Primary Skill Code have been separated. Employees holding career appointments shall not be released from their Competitive Levels in a RIF until all career candidate employees in the same Competitive Levels have been released. E454.5.4 Order of Separation Within a Primary Skill Code, no career or career candidate employee will be separated until all limited, non-career appointees in the Primary Skill Code are separated. Employees compete for retention within the same Competitive Level only. Temporary Career Extension are lowest ranked.
Separation begins with the lowest ranked subgroup.
For the Foreign Service, the names of competing employees in a given Competitive Level are first placed in one of two groups on a retention register on the basis of their tenure group, i.e., career and career candidate. All competing employees in a given competitive level, whether in work or leave status, are shown on the register. Core Retention Standing Factors for SFS and FS Employees. Fractions of points will be rounded up or down to the next full point. The notice period begins the day after the employee receives a RIF notice.