Payroll/Personnel System Overview (PPSO)

Reduction-in-Force System (RIF)

RIF is an online report generator system that produces retention registers. Retention registers provide a list of competing employees within a competitive level who are grouped by tenure, veteran preference, and length of service augmented by performance credit. The retention registers are sorted by grade, tenure group, and/or service computation date (SCD) into competitive levels using the following services:

• Appointing authority within the excepted service
• Type of work schedule
• Grade or pay band
• Occupational series
• Pay schedule
• Supervisory code

The information on the retention registers is obtained from the PPS database to provide current and future personnel data according to user-specified selection criteria. For more information, see the Reduction-in-Force System (RIF) procedure located under the HR and Payroll Processing publication category on the Publications page of the NFC Web site.