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<title>Federal Employee Recruitment and Retention Plan Act of 2019</title>
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<action-date>2019-11-14</action-date>
<action-desc>Introduced in House</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p><b>Federal Employee Recruitment and Retention Plan Act of 2019</b></p> <p>This bill requires the Office of Personnel Management to submit a plan to ensure the executive branch has a full workforce of qualified employees.</p> <p>Such plan shall include actionable strategies to (1) hire new employees for vacant, or soon-to-be vacant, positions; (2) attract at least one qualified applicant for each job opening no later than two weeks after the opening is made available; and (3) prevent the loss of institutional knowledge when an employee leaves the executive branch. </p>]]></summary-text>
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