42 U.S.C. § 17356: General personnel authorities

Summary

If the Foundation’s Chief Executive Officer asks, an agency head can loan any agency employee to the Foundation and the Foundation must pay the agency for it. A loaned employee keeps their job status, benefits, seniority, and rights with their original agency. Employees who had a career or career‑conditional appointment and moved to the Foundation with agency approval can return to their old job or one like it if the Foundation separates them for reasons other than misconduct and they apply within 90 days. The agency must rehire them within 30 days and give them at least the pay they would have had. Up to 30 Foundation employees may be hired, paid, or removed without following civil service rules. The CEO can set Foundation pay without using position classification or General Schedule rules, but no pay may exceed the rate for level IV of the Executive Schedule under section 5315. "Agency" means an executive agency as defined in section 105 of title 5. "Detail" means assigning an employee to the Foundation without changing their job.

Title 42, §17356

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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 Foundation 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 Foundation, 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 Foundation 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 Foundation.

(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 Foundation, no more than 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 Foundation 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 Foundation may receive a rate of basic pay that exceeds the rate for level IV of the Executive Schedule under section 5315 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 Foundation.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective on the date that is 1 day after Dec. 19, 2007, see section 1601 of Pub. L. 110–140, set out as a note under section 1824 of Title 2, The Congress.

§17356 General Personnel Authorities

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Title 42, §17356

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