§4315 Reemployment by Certain Federal Agencies

Summary

Heads of certain agencies must create rules so employees get the protections in this law. The rules must, as much as possible, rehire people who left for uniformed service in a way like section 4313 says. Each agency must name an official to decide if reemploying someone is impossible or unreasonable. If that official decides reemployment is impossible or unreasonable, the official must tell the person and the Director of the Office of Personnel Management. That decision cannot be reviewed by a court. Each year the agency head must report to the Select Committee on Intelligence and the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs of the Senate and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs of the House of Representatives how many such decisions were made and why. Nothing here frees those agencies from following other parts of this law. An employee can ask the Secretary for help or information about reemployment, alternative federal jobs, or rights under this law, and an agency may voluntarily work with or ask the Secretary or the Director of the Office of Personnel Management for help. If a person worked for one of these agencies when they left for service, the agency finds reemployment impossible or unreasonable, and the person applies to the Director of OPM, the Director must offer that person a job in a Federal executive agency.