Sample Non-Competitive Vacancy Announcements

Sample non-competitive vacancy announcement for Schedule A employment opportunities for people with disabilities. 

Four Steps to Filling Vacancies Fast with Qualified Individuals with Disabilities

Schedule A is an Office of Personnel Management, non-competitive hiring authority that gives managers the tools to hire qualified persons with disabilities quickly and easily.  No public notice is required.  Through some simple coordination with a Human Resource Specialist, managers...

Evaluation of the DOT Disability Resource Center (TecAccess Report)

The U.S. Department of Transportation founded its Disability Resource Center (DRC) to provide and support Reasonable Accommodations (RA) requests for People with Disabilities (PWD).  This research study was initiated to support the Departmental Office of Human Resource Management to enhance...

Guidelines for Documenting Hidden Medical Conditions

If a Department of Transportation (DOT) employee has a hidden disability and wishes to make a request for reasonable accommodation, documentation is typically requested by the employee’s immediate supervisor, who has been designated the decision maker in the DOT Order on Reasonable Accommodation...

Personal Assistance Services: Questions and Answers

Personal Assistance Services (PAS) can be defined as people or services that assist a person with a physical, sensory, mental, or cognitive disability with tasks that the person would perform for himself/herself if he/she did not have a disability.  In general, these may include assistance...

Staff Directory

Staff Directory for the Department of Transportation's Office of Governmental Affairs.

Agendas and Minutes

FAAC Final Report

The FAAC Final Report describes that 23 recommendations were delivered to Secretary LaHood at the final FAAC meeting on December 15, 2010. These 23 recommendations form the basis of this report. They cover issues critical to the future of the U.S. aviation industry, including the Next Generation...

Message from Secretary LaHood on FAAC

Today, aviation plays an ever more critical role in our Nation’s economy while continuing to expand its vital support of global commerce and trade.  Conversely, the state of the economy and the occurrence of events around the world have a...

Finance Subcommittee

The overall issue of airline stability and funding future investment is critical.

Airlines have reported net losses in seven of the past ten years,...