Title 22 — Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-73
§3643 Transfer of Federal employees
Title 22 › Chapter CHAPTER 51— - PANAMA CANAL › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER I— - ADMINISTRATION AND REGULATIONS › Part Part 2— - Employees › Subpart subpart i— - panama canal commission personnel › § 3643
Summary
Agency heads may send or loan permanent employees to the Commission, and when their tour ends they must return to their original agency with the same pay, seniority, and benefits. "Agency" means an Executive agency, the United States Postal Service, and the Smithsonian Institution; OPM must make rules.
Full Legal Text
Title 22, §3643
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(a)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)For purposes of this section, the term “agency” means an Executive agency, the United States Postal Service, and the Smithsonian Institution.
(c)The Office of Personnel Management shall prescribe regulations to carry out the purposes of this section.
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22 U.S.C. § 3643
Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73