[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 5, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 5CFR351.705]

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                    TITLE 5--ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL
 
                CHAPTER I--OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
 
PART 351_REDUCTION IN FORCE--Table of Contents
 
             Subpart G_Assignment Rights (Bump and Retreat)
 
Sec. 351.705  Administrative assignment.

    (a) An agency may, at its discretion, adopt provisions which:
    (1) Permit a competing employee to displace an employee with lower 
retention standing in the same subgroup consistent with Sec. 351.701 
when the agency cannot make an equally reasonable assignment by 
displacing an employee in a lower subgroup;
    (2) Permit an employee in subgroup III-AD to displace an employee in 
subgroup III-A or III-B, or permit an employee in subgroup III-A to 
displace an employee is subgroup III-B consistent with Sec. 351.701; or
    (3) Provide competing employees in the excepted service with 
assignment rights to other positions under the same appointing authority 
on the same basis as assignment rights provided to competitive service 
employees under Sec. 351.701 and in paragraphs (a) (1) and (2) of this 
section.
    (b) Provisions adopted by an agency under paragraph (a) of this 
section:
    (1) Shall be consistent with this part;
    (2) Shall be uniformly and consistently applied in any one reduction 
in force;
    (3) May not provide for the assignment of an other-than-full-time 
employee to a full-time position;
    (4) May not provide for the assignment of a full-time employee to an 
other-than-full-time position;
    (5) May not provide for the assignment of an employee in a 
competitive service position to a position in the excepted service; and
    (6) May not provide for the assignment of an employee in an excepted 
position to a position in the competitive service.

[51 FR 319, Jan. 3, 1986, as amended at 62 FR 62502, Nov. 24, 1997]