§3402 — Title 5 Government Organization and Employees | U.S. Code

Summary

Agency leaders must set up and run a program to offer part-time career jobs at all grade levels. The program must check which vacant jobs could be filled part-time and set rules for creating or converting jobs (subject to limits in section 3403). It must include yearly goals and a schedule with interim and final deadlines, regular reviews of how the program is working, and ways to tell the public about open part-time jobs using the agency’s normal communications. Staff who work on the program must coordinate. Agencies may allow exceptions when needed to do their mission. The Office of Personnel Management must make rules to advise and help agencies that ask for it. OPM must also run research and demonstration projects. That work will test part-time use in jobs not usually part-time (for example, supervisory, managerial, and professional jobs), study job-sharing, and evaluate attitudes, costs, benefits, efficiency, productivity, and social effects.

Title 5, §3402

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(a)(1)In order to promote part-time career employment opportunities in all grade levels, the head of each agency, by regulation, shall establish and maintain a program for part-time career employment within such agency. Such regulations shall provide for—

(A)the review of positions which, after such positions become vacant, may be filled on a part-time career employment basis (including the establishment of criteria to be used in identifying such positions);

(B)procedures and criteria to be used in connection with establishing or converting positions for part-time career employment, subject to the limitations of section 3403 of this title;

(C)annual goals for establishing or converting positions for part-time career employment, and a timetable setting forth interim and final deadlines for achieving such goals;

(D)a continuing review and evaluation of the part-time career employment program established under such regulations; and

(E)procedures for notifying the public of vacant part-time positions in such agency, utilizing facilities and funds otherwise available to such agency for the dissemination of information.

(2)The head of each agency shall provide for communication between, and coordination of the activities of, the individuals within such agency whose responsibilities relate to the part-time career employment program established within that agency.

(3)Regulations established under paragraph (1) of this subsection may provide for such exceptions as may be necessary to carry out the mission of the agency.

(b)(1)The Office of Personnel Management, by regulation, shall establish and maintain a program under which it shall, on the request of an agency, advise and assist such agency in the establishment and maintenance of its part-time career employment program under this chapter.

(2)The Office shall conduct a research and demonstration program with respect to part-time career employment within the Federal Government. In particular, such program shall be directed to—

(A)determining the extent to which part-time career employment may be used in filling positions which have not traditionally been open for such employment on any extensive basis, such as supervisory, managerial, and professional positions;

(B)determining the extent to which job-sharing arrangements may be established for various occupations and positions; and

(C)evaluating attitudes, benefits, costs, efficiency, and productivity associated with part-time career employment, as well as its various sociological effects as a mode of employment.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1978—Pub. L. 95–454, § 906(c)(1)(B), renumbered section 3392 of this title as this section. Subsec. (a)(1)(B). Pub. L. 95–454, § 906(c)(2)(B)(i), substituted “3403” for “3393”. Subsec. (b)(1). Pub. L. 95–454, § 906(c)(2)(B)(ii), substituted “Office of Personnel Management” for “Civil Service Commission” and “chapter” for “subchapter”. Subsec. (b)(2). Pub. L. 95–454, § 906(c)(2)(B)(iii), substituted “Office” for “Commission”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 1978 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 95–454 effective 90 days after Oct. 13, 1978, see section 907 of Pub. L. 95–454, set out as a note under section 1101 of this title.

§3402 Establishment of part-time career employment programs