Title 22 — Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-73

§7716 General personnel authorities

Title 22 › Chapter CHAPTER 84— - MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE › § 7716

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Chief Executive Officer can ask an agency head to loan an employee to the Corporation. The agency pays for that detail. Loaned employees stay employees of their agency and keep their benefits, rights, seniority, and pay status. A career employee who transfers to the Corporation with their agency’s OK can return to their old or an equal job if separated for any reason except misconduct, and they apply within 90 days; the agency must rehire them within 30 days and give them the pay they would have had. No more than 30 Corporation staff may be hired, paid, or fired outside civil service rules. The CEO can set pay scales without following federal job classification or General Schedule rules, but no one may be paid more than the rate for Level II of the Executive Schedule under section 5313 of title 5. Definitions: “agency” = an executive agency under section 105 of title 5. “detail” = a loan or assignment of an employee to the Corporation without changing their position.

Full Legal Text

Title 22, §7716

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(a)Upon request of the Chief Executive Officer, the head of an agency may detail any employee of such agency to the Corporation on a reimbursable basis. Any employee so detailed remains, for the purpose of preserving such employee’s allowances, privileges, rights, seniority, and other benefits, an employee of the agency from which detailed.

(b)(1)An employee of an agency who is serving under a career or career conditional appointment (or the equivalent), and who, with the consent of the head of such agency, transfers to the Corporation, is entitled to be reemployed in such employee’s former position or a position of like seniority, status, and pay in such agency, if such employee—

(A)is separated from the Corporation for any reason, other than misconduct, neglect of duty, or malfeasance; and

(B)applies for reemployment not later than 90 days after the date of separation from the Corporation.

(2)An employee who satisfies paragraph (1) is entitled to be reemployed (in accordance with such paragraph) within 30 days after applying for reemployment and, on reemployment, is entitled to at least the rate of basic pay to which such employee would have been entitled had such employee never transferred.

(c)Of persons employed by the Corporation, not to exceed 30 persons may be appointed, compensated, or removed without regard to the civil service laws and regulations.

(d)The Chief Executive Officer may fix the rate of basic pay of employees of the Corporation without regard to the provisions of chapter 51 of title 5 (relating to the classification of positions), subchapter III of chapter 53 of such title (relating to General Schedule pay rates), except that no employee of the Corporation may receive a rate of basic pay that exceeds the rate for level II of the Executive Schedule under section 5313 of such title.

(e)In this section—

(1)the term “agency” means an executive agency, as defined by section 105 of title 5; and

(2)the term “detail” means the assignment or loan of an employee, without a change of position, from the agency by which such employee is employed to the Corporation.

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22 U.S.C. § 7716

Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73