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Governmentwide regulations do not establish a minimum time for a supervisor to supervise an employee before he or she can rate the employee. Instead, the regulations require that appraisal programs establish a minimum appraisal period, which is the minimum amount of time that employees must work under a specific set of elements and standards before they can be assigned a rating of record. (The Governmentwide regulation on minimum appraisal periods is found in section 430.207(a) of title 5, Code of Federal Regulations.)
As long as a supervisor has the necessary information and the employee has been under an
established set of elements and standards for the minimum appraisal period, the supervisor can assign a rating.
As a further follow-up, you should also check with your Human Resources Office. Your agency's appraisal program may contain certain requirements, specific to your agency, about assigning ratings of record. |