Title 22, Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-110
§3643 Transfer of Federal Employees
Title 22 › CHAPTER 51 — PANAMA CANAL › SUBCHAPTER I — ADMINISTRATION AND REGULATIONS › Part 2 — Employees › subpart i — panama canal commission personnel › § 3643
Summary
Agency heads can make agreements to transfer or assign permanent employees to the Commission. When the assignment ends, the employee must get their job back with no loss of pay, seniority, or other benefits. "Agency" means an Executive agency, the U.S. Postal Service, and the Smithsonian. The Office of Personnel Management must make rules to carry this out.
Full Legal Text
Title 22, §3643
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(a)Authority to enter into agreements; reemployment rights
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)“Agency” defined
For purposes of this section, the term “agency” means an Executive agency, the United States Postal Service, and the Smithsonian Institution.
(c)Regulations
The Office of Personnel Management shall prescribe regulations to carry out the purposes of this section.
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Citation
22 U.S.C. § 3643
Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse
Last Updated
Sep 22, 2026
Release point: 119-110