Janice R. Lachance, deputy director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), will be joined by other Clinton administration officials and representatives of labor unions representing federal workers in a visit to Cornell Wednesday, Oct. 8, for a meeting of the National Partnership Council (NPC).

The NPC, which will meet from 2 to 4:30 p.m. in the Statler Hotel's Carrier Grand Ballroom, was created in 1993 by executive order to support and promote collaborative federal labor-management relations. The NPC holds several meetings outside of Washington D.C., during the course of the year, so that it may hear from federal employees in other parts of the country.

NPC members will hear a report on labor-management partnerships from Bernard Flaherty, associate director of extension and public service for Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations.

Lachance was appointed deputy director of the OPM by President Clinton and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in July. In her post she oversees an agency work force of 3,700 employees and an operating budget of $376 million.

Also attending the NPC meeting are:

• Carol Bonosaro, president of the Senior Executives Association, a professional association representing the top career executives in the federal government.
• James Cunningham, president of the National Federation of Federal Employees.
• G. Edward DeSeve, deputy director of management in the Office of Management and Budget.
• John F. Leyden, secretary-treasurer of the Public Employee Department.
• Phyllis Segal, chair of the Federal Labor Relations Authority.
• Michael Styles, president of the Federal Manager's Association.
• Robert M. Tobias, president of the National Treasurery Employees Union.