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Title 5 — Government Organization and Employees

Part III · Chapter 35 — Retention Preference, Voluntary Separation Incentive Payments, Restoration, and Reemployment

§ 3595a. Furlough in the Senior Executive Service

Statutory text

(a)

For the purposes of this section, “furlough” means the placement of a senior executive in a temporary status in which the senior executive has no duties and is not paid when the placement in such status is by reason of insufficient work or funds or for other nondisciplinary reasons.

(b)

An agency may furlough a career appointee only in accordance with regulations issued by the Office of Personnel Management.

(c)

A career appointee who is furloughed is entitled to appeal to the Merit Systems Protection Board under section 7701 of this title.

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. Civil Service Retirement Spouse Equity Act of 1984

    Pub. L. 98–615 title III § 306(c)(1) · 98 Stat. 3195

    Enacted · 5 U.S.C. § 3595a

    (Added Pub. L. 98–615, title III, § 306(c)(1), Nov. 8, 1984, 98 Stat. 3220.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Added Pub. L. 98–615, title III, § 306(c)(1), Nov. 8, 1984, 98 Stat. 3220.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (1) Such title is amended by adding after section 3595 the following new section: “§ 3595a. Furlough in the Senior Executive Service “(a) For the purposes of this section, ‘furlough’ means the placement of a senior executive in a temporary status in which the senior executive has no duties and is not paid when the placement in such status is by reason of insufficient work or funds or for other nondisciplinary reasons. “(b) An agency may furlough a career appointee only in accordance with regulations issued by the Office of Personnel Management. “(c) A career appointee who is furloughed is entitled to appeal to the Merit Systems Protection Board under section 7701 of this 5 USC 7701. title.”.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective following expiration of 90-day period beginning on , see section 307 of Pub. L. 98–615, set out as an Effective Date of 1984 Amendment note under section 3393 of this title.

Credits

(Added Pub. L. 98–615, title III, § 306(c)(1), , 98 Stat. 3220.)

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