Sec. 702. Strategic workforce plan and report
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Chapter VII of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act ( 21 U.S.C. 371 et seq. ) is amended by inserting after section 714A the following: Not later than September 30, 2023, and at least every 4 years thereafter, the Secretary shall develop and submit to the appropriate committees of Congress and post on the website of the Food and Drug Administration, a coordinated strategy and report to provide direction for the activities and programs of the Secretary to recruit, hire, train, develop, and retain the workforce needed to fulfill the public health mission of the Food and Drug Administration, including to facilitate collaboration across centers, to keep pace with new biomedical, technological, and scientific advancements, and support the development, review, and regulation of medical products.
Each such report shall be known as the Food and Drug Administration Strategic Workforce Plan . Each center within the Food and Drug Administration shall develop and update, as appropriate, a strategic plan that will be informed by the Food and Drug Administration Strategic Workforce Plan developed and updated under this subsection. Each Food and Drug Administration Strategic Workforce Plan under subsection
(a)shall— include agency-wide strategic goals and priorities for recruiting, hiring, training, developing, and retaining a qualified workforce for the Food and Drug Administration; establish specific activities the Secretary will take to achieve its strategic goals and priorities and address the workforce needs of the Food and Drug Administration in the forthcoming fiscal years; identify challenges and risks the Secretary will face in meeting its strategic goals and priorities, and the activities the Secretary will undertake to overcome those challenges and mitigate those risks; establish metrics and milestones that the Secretary will use to measure progress in achieving its strategic goals and priorities; and define functions, capabilities, and gaps in such workforce and identify strategies to recruit, hire, train, develop, and retain such workforce. In developing each Food and Drug Administration Strategic Workforce Plan under subsection (a), the Secretary shall consider— the number of employees, employee expertise, and employing center of employees, including senior leadership and non-senior leadership employees, eligible for retirement; the vacancy and turnover rates for employees with different types of expertise and from different centers, including any changes or trends related to such rates; the results of the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey for employees of the Food and Drug Administration, including any changes or trends related to such results; rates of pay for different types of positions, including rates for different types of expertise within the same field (such as differences in pay between different medical specialists), and how such rates of pay impact the ability of the Secretary to achieve strategic goals and priorities; and the statutory hiring authorities used to hire Food and Drug Administration employees, and the time to hire across different hiring authorities. Each Food and Drug Administration Strategic Workforce Plan issued pursuant to subsection (a), with the exception of the first such Food and Drug Administration Strategic Workforce Plan, shall include an evaluation of the progress the Secretary has made, based on the metrics, benchmarks, and other milestones that measure successful recruitment, hiring, training, development, and retention activities; and whether such actions improved the capacity of the Food and Drug Administration to achieve the strategic goals and priorities set forth in the previous Food and Drug Administration Strategic Workforce Plan. The Food and Drug Administration Strategic Workforce Plan issued in fiscal year 2023 shall address the effect of the COVID–19 pandemic on hiring, retention, and other workforce challenges for the Food and Drug Administration, including protecting such workforce during public health emergencies. .
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