PRIA, Government Policy, Made Personal

Summary

An agency head may send an employee who wins a Mansfield Fellowship to the Center for up to 2 years. Before the fellowship starts, the fellow must sign a written agreement to stay with their agency for at least 2 years after the fellowship unless they are involuntarily separated. If the fellow quits early by choice, they must repay extra government costs, unless they leave to work for another federal agency and their agency head had not told them beforehand that repayment would be required. While on detail, the fellow keeps their job rights, seniority, pay, and benefits from their home agency, and those payments come from that agency’s funds and count as meeting section 5536 of title 5. The Center does not have to pay the United States to have the fellow detailed, and the Center may pay the allowances and benefits listed in section 6102(4)(B).

Title 22, §6104

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(a)In general

(1)An agency head may detail, for a period of not more than 2 years, an employee of the agency who has been awarded a Mansfield Fellowship, to the Center.

(2)Each fellow who is detailed under this section shall enter into a written agreement with the Federal Government before receiving a fellowship that the fellow will—

(A)continue in the service of the fellow’s agency at the end of the fellowship for a period of at least 2 years unless the fellow is involuntarily separated from the service of such agency; and

(B)pay to the United States Information Agency any additional expenses incurred by the Federal Government in connection with the fellowship if the fellow is voluntarily separated from service with the fellow’s agency before the end of the period for which the fellow has agreed to continue in the service of such agency.

(3)The payment agreed to under paragraph (2)(B) may not be required of a fellow who leaves the service of such agency to enter into the service of another agency in any branch of the United States Government unless the head of the agency that authorized the fellowship notifies the employee before the effective date of entry into the service of the other agency that payment will be required under this section.

(b)Status as Government employee

A fellow detailed under subsection (a) is deemed, for the purpose of preserving allowances, privileges, rights, seniority, and other benefits, an employee of the agency from which detailed, and is entitled to pay, allowances, and benefits from funds available to that agency. The authorization and payment of such allowances and other benefits from appropriations available therefore is deemed to comply with section 5536 of title 5.

(c)Reimbursement

Fellows may be detailed under subsection (a) without reimbursement to the United States by the Center.

(d)Allowances and benefits

A fellow detailed under subsection (a) may be paid by the Center for allowances and benefits listed in section 6102(4)(B) of this title.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Transfer of Functions

United States Information Agency (other than Broadcasting Board of Governors and International Broadcasting Bureau) abolished and functions transferred to Secretary of State, see section 6531 and 6532 of this title.

§6104 Mansfield Fellows on Detail From Government Service

Summary

Title 22, §6104

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Transfer of Functions

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