Below Fully Successful Performance (Employee Relations) [Personnel Manager]

Supervisors and managers must provide assistance to employees to improve unacceptable performance. Assistance may be provided at any time during the appraisal period that performance is determined to be at the "Unacceptable" level in one or more critical results. The performance appraisal program must provide for reassigning, reducing in grade, or removing employees who continue to have unacceptable performance but only after such employees have an opportunity to demonstrate acceptable performance. Performance appraisal programs must also provide for review and approval of "Unacceptable" ratings of record by a higher level management official.

REF:
n Title 5 USC Ch 43
n 5 CFR Part 430