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Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Part 2 · Chapter 51 — Panama Canal

§ 3643. Transfer of Federal employees

Statutory text

(a)

Authority to enter into agreements; reemployment rights

The head of any agency may enter into agreements for the transfer or detail to the Commission of any employee of that agency serving under a permanent appointment. Any employee who so transfers or is so detailed shall, upon completion of the employee’s tour of duty with the Commission, be entitled to reemployment with the agency from which the employee was transferred or detailed without loss of pay, seniority, or other rights or benefits to which the employee would have been entitled had the employee not been so transferred or been so detailed.

(b)

“Agency” defined

For purposes of this section, the term “agency” means an Executive agency, the United States Postal Service, and the Smithsonian Institution.

(c)

Regulations

The Office of Personnel Management shall prescribe regulations to carry out the purposes of this section.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Panama Canal Act of 1979

    Pub. L. 96–70 title I § 1203 · 93 Stat. 452

    Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 3643

    (Pub. L. 96–70, title I, § 1203, Sept. 27, 1979, 93 Stat. 461.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 96–70, title I, § 1203, Sept. 27, 1979, 93 Stat. 461.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 1203. transfer of federal employees (a) The head of any agency may enter into agreements 22 USC 3643. for the transfer or detail to the Commission of any employee of that agency serving under a permanent appointment. Any employee who so transfers or is so detailed shall, upon completion of the employee’s tour of duty with the Commission, be entitled to reemployment with the agency from which the employee was transferred or detailed without loss of pay, seniority, or other rights or benefits to which the employee would have been entitled had the employee not been so transferred or been so detailed. (b) For purposes of this section, the term “agency” means an “Agency.” Executive agency, the United States Postal Service, and the Smithsonian Institution. (c) The Office of Personnel Management shall prescribe regulations Regulations. to carry out the purposes of this section.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Pub. L. 96–70, title I, § 1203, , 93 Stat. 461.)

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