§225e Conditions of employment for former employees of Hospital

Summary

Make people who move from the Hospital into District government jobs without a break meet the District’s hiring rules (except for license requirements at first) and become District employees under the District personnel laws. They must get any required professional license within 18 months. Their accrued annual and sick leave moves to the District under District leave rules. The District sets their grade and pay by its rules, but they cannot lose basic pay or seniority. If they already get a physician’s comparability allowance under 5 U.S.C. 5948, they keep that pay and keep the allowance until the current agreement ends or for 2 years from their District start date, whichever is later. They get the same health and life insurance as other District employees. People who worked for the Federal Government before January 1, 1984 stay in the Civil Service Retirement System as allowed for District employees. People who worked for the Federal Government on or after January 1, 1984 join the District retirement system. People appointed from retention or reemployment lists without a break do not have to meet the District residency rule. If someone is getting federal workers’ compensation for a work injury, the Federal Government keeps handling and paying the claim until they recover and return to work; after they return, any later recurrence of the injury is handled under the District’s workers’ compensation rules. The District can start or continue actions against someone hired under the transfer rules for cause tied to events before the service coordination period ended, and those actions must follow the same federal laws and rules that would have applied otherwise. Commissioned Public Health Service officers detailed to the District mental health system do not count toward HHS full-time equivalent totals. “Hospital employees” also includes former patients who hold career jobs at the Hospital.