5 U.S.C. § 5401
Purpose
United States · Title 5 — GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES · Status: effective
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The purpose of this chapter is to promote, through the creation of a Human Capital Performance Fund, greater performance in the Federal Government. Monies from the Fund will be used to reward agencies’ highest performing and most valuable employees. This Fund will offer Federal managers a new tool to recognize employee performance that is critical to the achievement of agency missions.
Legislative history
The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone.
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004