Sec. 331. Employee Engagement Steering Committee and action plan
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Title VII of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 ( 6 U.S.C. 341 et seq. ), as amended by this Act, is further amended by adding at the end the following new section: Not later than 120 days after the date of the enactment of this section, the Secretary shall establish a steering committee to be known as the Employee Engagement Steering Committee (referred to in this section as the Steering Committee ). The Steering Committee shall— identify factors that have a negative impact on employee engagement, morale, and communications within the Department, such as perceptions about limitations on career progression, mobility, or development opportunities, collected through employee feedback platforms, including through annual employee surveys, questionnaires, and other communications, as appropriate; identify, develop, and distribute initiatives and best practices to improve employee engagement, morale, and communications within the Department, including through annual employee surveys, questionnaires, and other communications, as appropriate; monitor efforts of each component to address employee engagement, morale, and communications based on employee feedback provided through annual employee surveys, questionnaires, and other communications, as appropriate; advise the Secretary on efforts to improve employee engagement, morale, and communications within specific components and across the Department; and conduct regular meetings and report, not fewer than once per quarter, to the Under Secretary for Management, the head of each component, and the Secretary on Department-wide efforts to improve employee engagement, morale, and communications.
The Steering Committee shall be composed of representatives from each operational component of the Department, including— supervisory and non-supervisory field personnel; Department Headquarters; and employee labor organizations that represent Department employees. The Under Secretary for Management of the Department shall be the chairperson of the Steering Committee. The Secretary, acting through the Chief Human Capital Officer, shall— not later than 120 days after the date of the establishment of the Steering Committee, issue a Department-wide employee engagement action plan, reflecting input from the Steering Committee and employee feedback provided through annual employee surveys, questionnaires, and other communications in accordance with subsection (a)(2), to execute strategies to improve employee engagement, morale, and communications within the Department; and require the head of each component to— develop and implement a component-specific employee engagement plan to advance the action plan required under paragraph
(1)that includes performance measures and objectives, is informed by employee feedback provided through annual employee surveys, questionnaires, and other communications, as appropriate, and sets forth how employees and, where applicable, their labor representatives, are to be integrated in developing programs and initiatives; monitor progress on implementation of such action plan; and provide to the Chief Human Capital Officer and the Steering Committee quarterly reports on actions planned and progress made under this paragraph. This section shall terminate on the date that is five years after the date of the enactment of this section. . The table of contents in section 1(b) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002, as amended by this Act, is further amended by inserting after the item relating to section 719 the following new item: Sec. 720. Employee Engagement Steering Committee and action plan. . The Secretary, acting through the Chief Human Capital Officer of the Department, shall submit to the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate the Department of Homeland Security-wide employee engagement action plan required under subsection (b)(1) of section 721 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (as added by subsection
(a)of this section) not later than 30 days after the issuance of such plan. Each head of a component of the Department shall submit to the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate the component-specific employee engagement plan of each such component required under subsection (b)(2) of section 721 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (as added by subsection
(a)of this section) not later than 30 days after the issuance of each such plan.
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