Succession Plan

Succession Plan for the FMCS

DATES:

This Succession Plan for the FMCS is effective April 7, 2025.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

By the authority vested in the Director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) by 29 U.S.C. 172, and to provide for the continuity of essential operations of the FMCS in all circumstances this Notice provides the succession plan of officials authorized to perform the functions and duties of the Director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. The following is the succession plan of officials hereby ordered:

Order of Succession

During any period in which the Director has died, resigned, or otherwise become unable to perform the functions and duties of the office of the Director, and there is no Acting Director serving under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998, 5 U.S.C. 3345-3349d, the following officers of the FMCS, in the order listed, are hereby delegated the authority to perform the functions and duties of the Director, to the extent permitted by law:

1. Principal Deputy, Chief Operating Officer;

2. General Counsel;

3. Director, Budget;

4. Director, Operational Security and Continuity of Operations;

5. Deputy General Counsel.

No individual who is serving in an office listed in this order in an acting capacity, by virtue of so serving, shall be delegated the functions and duties of the Director.