Title 22Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-73not60

§7716 General Personnel Authorities

Title 22 › Chapter 84— MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE › § 7716

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

The CEO can ask an agency to loan an employee to the Corporation, and the agency can be paid back for that loan. A loaned employee keeps their agency pay, job rights, seniority, and other benefits. Employees with career or career-conditional appointments who move to the Corporation with their agency’s approval can get their old job back or a similar job if they leave the Corporation for any reason except misconduct, neglect, or malfeasance and apply within 90 days. The agency must rehire them within 30 days and give them at least the base pay they would have had if they had never left. No more than 30 Corporation employees may be hired, paid, or removed outside the civil service rules. The CEO can set base pay without following federal job classification or General Schedule rules, but no pay can exceed the rate for Executive Schedule level II under section 5313. "Agency" means an executive agency under 5 U.S.C. 105. "Detail" means a temporary assignment or loan to the Corporation without changing the employee’s official position.

Full Legal Text

Title 22, §7716

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(a)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)(1)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)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)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)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)In this section—
(1)the term “agency” means an executive agency, as defined by section 105 of title 5; and
(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 22Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60