[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 5, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 5CFR340.202]

[Page 239-240]
 
                    TITLE 5--ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL
 
                CHAPTER I--OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
 
PART 340--OTHER THAN FULL-TIME CAREER EMPLOYMENT (PART-TIME, SEASONAL, 
ON-CALL, AND INTERMITTENT)--Table of Contents
 
        Subpart B--Regulatory Requirements--Part-Time Employment
 
Sec. 340.202  General.

    (a) Definitions. Part-time career employment means regularly 
scheduled work of from 16 to 32 hours per week performed by an employee 
of an agency as defined in 5 U.S.C. 3401 (a) through (f), who has an 
appointment in tenure group I or II and who becomes employed on such 
part-time basis on or after April 8, 1979.
    Tenure group I applies to employees in the competitive service under 
career appointments who are not serving probation and permanent 
employees in the excepted service whose appointments carry no 
restrictions or conditions.
    Tenure group II applies to employees in the competitive service 
serving probation, career-conditional employees, and career employees in 
obligated positions. It also includes employees in the excepted service 
serving trial periods, whose tenure is indefinite solely because they 
occupy obligated positions; or whose tenure is equivalent to career-
conditional in the competitive service.
    (b) Agency Exceptions. As an exception to the general definition of 
part-time employment in Sec. 340.202(a) and under the authority provided 
in 5 U.S.C. 3402(a)(3), an agency may permit an employee who has an 
appointment in tenure group I or II to perform regularly scheduled work 
of from 1 to 15 hours per week.
    (c) Mixed Tours of Duty. The provisions of this subpart and the term 
``part-time career employment'' do not apply to employees with 
appointments in tenure groups I or II who work under mixed tours of 
duty. For this purpose, a mixed tour of duty consists of annually 
recurring periods of full-time, part-time, or intermittent service as

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long as the employee does not work part-time more than 6 pay periods per 
calendar year.

[44 FR 57380, Oct. 5, 1979, as amended at 49 FR 17722, Apr. 25, 1984; 60 
FR 3061, Jan. 13, 1995]