§4606 Officers and Employees

Summary

The Board must appoint the Institute’s president and any other officers it needs. The president is a nonvoting member of the Board and is hired for a stated term. All officers serve as long as the Board wants. The Board sets pay for the president and other Board-appointed officers, but pay cannot be higher than Executive Schedule Level I. Under section 4604(h)(3), the Board may allow the president and other designated staff to handle public money, make grants, sign contracts, set fees, and do other things needed to run the Institute. The president, following the Institute’s bylaws and Board rules, may hire, set pay for, and remove employees. Employee pay and job classification follow the rules in Title 5 and the General Schedule. Federal officers or employees can be assigned to the Institute if they agree and their salary, benefits, status, or promotion chances are not harmed. The Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, and the Director of Central Intelligence may each assign staff on a rotating basis as the Board decides. Institute officers and full-time employees may not get pay from anywhere else while working for the Institute unless the Board allows it. Institute staff are not federal employees except for Title 28 (federal tort claims) and these parts of Title 5: chapter 51; subchapters I and III of chapter 53; subchapter I of chapter 81; chapters 83, 87, and 89. The Institute must pay the same contribution rates as federal agencies under those parts of Title 5 and must not make long-term promises that conflict with federal rules. No part of the Institute’s money or assets may go to any director, officer, employee, or agent during its life or on dissolution, except for reasonable pay or expense reimbursement approved under this chapter. The Institute cannot lend money to its insiders or entities it creates. Anyone who approves or helps make such a forbidden loan is jointly and severally responsible to repay it.