Title 5 — Government Organization and Employees
Part III · Chapter 35 — Retention Preference, Voluntary Separation Incentive Payments, Restoration, and Reemployment
§ 3597. Reemployment following limited appointment in the Foreign Service
Statutory text
An employee of any agency who accepts, with the consent of the head of that agency, a limited appointment in the Foreign Service under section 309 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 is entitled, upon the expiration of that appointment, to be reemployed in that employee’s former position or in a corresponding or higher position in that agency. Upon reemployment under this section, an employee shall be entitled to any within-grade increases in pay which the employee would have received if the employee had remained in the former position in the agency.
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.
Pub. L. 96–465 title II § 2301(a) · 94 Stat. 2071
Enacted · 5 U.S.C. § 3597
(Added Pub. L. 96–465, title II, § 2301(a), Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 2164.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Added Pub. L. 96–465, title II, § 2301(a), Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 2164.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
(a) Chapter 35 of title 5, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subchapter: “SUBCHAPTER VI— REEMPLOYMENT FOLLOWING LIMITED APPOINTMENT IN THE FOREIGN SERVICE “§ 3597. Reemployment following limited appointment in the Foreign Service “An employee of any agency who accepts, with the consent of the head of that agency, a limited appointment in the Foreign Service Ante, p. 2086. under section 309 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 is entitled, upon the expiration of that appointment, to be reemployed in that employee’s former position or in a corresponding or higher position in that agency. Upon reemployment under this section, an employee shall be entitled to any within-grade increases in pay which the employee would have received if the employee had remained in the former position in the agency.”.
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Editorial Notes
References in Text
Section 309 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980, referred to in text, is classified to section 3949 of Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
Section effective , except as otherwise provided, see section 2403 of Pub. L. 96–465, set out as a note under section 3901 of Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse.
Credits
(Added Pub. L. 96–465, title II, § 2301(a), , 94 Stat. 2164.)