[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 5, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 5CFR315.711]

[Page 165]
 
                    TITLE 5--ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL
 
                CHAPTER I--OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
 
PART 315--CAREER AND CAREER-CONDITIONAL EMPLOYMENT--Table of Contents
 
 Subpart G--Conversion to Career or Career-Conditional Employment From 
                        Other Types of Employment
 
Sec. 315.711  Readers, interpreters, and personal assistants serving under Schedule A appointments.

    (a) Agency authority. An agency may convert noncompetitively to 
career or career-conditional employment, a reader, interpreter, or 
personal assistant:
    (1) Who completed at least 1 year of satisfactory service in such a 
position under a non-temporary appointment under 5 CFR 213.3102(11); and
    (2) Whose employment in such a position is no longer necessary for 
reasons beyond management control, e.g. resignation or reassignment of 
the employee being assisted.
    (b) Tenure on appointment. (1) Except as provided in paragraph 
(b)(2) of this section, a person appointed under paragraph (a) of this 
section becomes a career-conditional employee.
    (2) A person appointed under paragraph (a) of this section becomes a 
career employee when he or she has completed the service requirement for 
career tenure or is excepted from it by Sec. 315.201(c).
    (c) Acquisition of competitive status. A person appointed under 
paragraph (a) of this section acquires a competitive status 
automatically on appointment.

[55 FR 12327, Apr. 3, 1990]
Sec. 315.712  Conversion based on service as a Career Intern
    (a) Agency authority. An agency may convert noncompetitively to 
career or career-conditional employment, a career intern who:
    (1) Has successfully completed a Career Intern Program, under 
Sec. 213.3202(o) of this chapter, at the time of conversion; and
    (2) Meets all citizenship, suitability and qualification 
requirements.
    (b) Tenure on conversion. An employee whose appointment is converted 
to career or career-conditional employment under paragraph (a) of this 
section becomes:
    (1) A career-conditional employee except as provided in paragraph 
(b)(2) of this section;
    (2) A career employee when he or she has completed the service 
requirement for career tenure or is excepted from it by Sec. 315.201(c).
    (c) Acquisition of competitive status. An employee whose employment 
is converted to career or career-conditional employment under this 
section acquires a competitive status automatically on conversion.

[65 FR 78079, Dec. 14, 2000]