Title 22 — Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-73not60

§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

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

Agency heads may transfer or temporarily assign permanent employees to work for the Commission. When that work ends, the employee has the right to return to their original agency and keep their pay, seniority, and other job rights and benefits they would have had if they had not left. "Agency" means Executive agencies, the U.S. Postal Service, and the Smithsonian Institution. The Office of Personnel Management will write rules to make this work.

Full Legal Text

Title 22, §3643

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(a)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)For purposes of this section, the term “agency” means an Executive agency, the United States Postal Service, and the Smithsonian Institution.

(c)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

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60