§2168 Memorandum of Understanding for Provision of Services of the United States Capitol Telephone Exchange for the House

Summary

The Chief Administrative Officer of the House and the Senate Sergeant at Arms can make an agreement where the Senate Sergeant at Arms runs the U.S. Capitol telephone exchange for the House. While that agreement is in effect, all jobs and workers in the exchange who were employed by the Chief Administrative Officer must move to the Senate Sergeant at Arms, who becomes their employer. The Senate Sergeant at Arms must keep each transferred employee’s pay rate and leave accrual at least as high as it was in the most recent pay period before the transfer, unless the employee leaves the same job or is punished for cause. Any unused leave must move with the employee and be usable under the same rules. The agreement may require the House to repay the Senate for the exchange’s employee expenses for a fiscal year. Repayments for salaries and related costs must go into the Sergeant at Arms’ salary accounts; other repayments go into the Sergeant at Arms’ contingent expenses account. Those funds can be used the same way as the other money in those accounts. This applies for fiscal year 2005 and each year after.