---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 C.F.R. § 536.401"
title: "5"
number: "536.401"
heading: "Placement and classification plans."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/5/536.401"
---

# §536.401. Placement and classification plans.

- (a) Agencies which employ individuals subject to this part are required to establish in writing placement and classification plans.
- (b) The placement and classification plans must commit the agency to:
  - (1) Identify and correct classification errors; and
  - (2) Correct position management problems; and
  - (3) Carry out specific planned efforts to place employees subject to this part; and
  - (4) **Pursue placement efforts that do not adversely affect affirmative action goals.**

## Notes

### Amendments

[45 FR 85656, Dec. 30, 1980. Redesignated at 70 FR 31310, May 31, 2005.]

### Source

Source: 45 FR 85656, Dec. 30, 1980, unless otherwise noted. Redesignated at 70 FR 31310, May 31, 2005.

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 5361-5366; sec. 4 of the Performance Management and Recognition System Termination Act of 1993 (Pub. L. 103-89), 107 Stat. 981; § 536.301(b) also issued under 5 U.S.C. 5334(b); § 536.308 also issued under sec. 301(d)(2) of the Federal Workforce Flexibility Act of 2004 (Pub. L. 108-411), 118 Stat. 2305; § 536.310 also issued under sections 1913 and 1918 of the Non-Foreign Area Retirement Equity Assurance Act of 2009 (subtitle B of title XIX of Pub. L.111-84), 123 Stat. 2619; § 536.405 also issued under 5 U.S.C. 552, Freedom of Information Act, Public Law 92-502.

### Source

Source: 45 FR 85656, Dec. 30, 1980, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[45 FR 85656, Dec. 30, 1980. Redesignated at 70 FR 31310, May 31, 2005.]