Title 22, Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-110

§7716 General Personnel Authorities

Title 22 › CHAPTER 84 — MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE › § 7716

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

Agency leaders can lend employees to the Corporation when the Chief Executive Officer asks, and the Corporation must repay the agency. Employees who are lent keep their agency job status, pay rights, seniority, and benefits as if they stayed at the agency. An agency worker with a career appointment who moves to the Corporation with agency approval can get back their old job (or one like it) if they leave the Corporation for any reason except misconduct and apply within 90 days. The agency must rehire them within 30 days and pay at least the salary they would have had if they never left. Up to 30 Corporation employees may be hired, paid, or fired outside normal civil service rules. The CEO can set base pay without using federal classification or General Schedule rules, but no one can be paid more than Executive Schedule level II (section 5313). Definitions: "Agency" means an executive agency under 5 U.S.C. 105. "Detail" means loaning an employee to the Corporation without changing their position.

Full Legal Text

Title 22, §7716

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(a)Detail of personnel

Upon request of the Chief Executive Officer, the head of an agency may detail any employee of such agency to the Corporation on a reimbursable basis. Any employee so detailed remains, for the purpose of preserving such employee’s allowances, privileges, rights, seniority, and other benefits, an employee of the agency from which detailed.

(b)Reemployment rights

(1)In general

An employee of an agency who is serving under a career or career conditional appointment (or the equivalent), and who, with the consent of the head of such agency, transfers to the Corporation, is entitled to be reemployed in such employee’s former position or a position of like seniority, status, and pay in such agency, if such employee—

(A)is separated from the Corporation for any reason, other than misconduct, neglect of duty, or malfeasance; and

(B)applies for reemployment not later than 90 days after the date of separation from the Corporation.

(2)Specific rights

An employee who satisfies paragraph (1) is entitled to be reemployed (in accordance with such paragraph) within 30 days after applying for reemployment and, on reemployment, is entitled to at least the rate of basic pay to which such employee would have been entitled had such employee never transferred.

(c)Hiring authority

Of persons employed by the Corporation, not to exceed 30 persons may be appointed, compensated, or removed without regard to the civil service laws and regulations.

(d)Basic pay

The Chief Executive Officer may fix the rate of basic pay of employees of the Corporation without regard to the provisions of chapter 51 of title 5 (relating to the classification of positions), subchapter III of chapter 53 of such title (relating to General Schedule pay rates), except that no employee of the Corporation may receive a rate of basic pay that exceeds the rate for level II of the Executive Schedule under section 5313 of such title.

(e)Definitions

In this section

(1)

(2)the term “detail” means the assignment or loan of an employee, without a change of position, from the agency by which such employee is employed to the Corporation.

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22 U.S.C. § 7716

Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110