[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 5, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2006]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 5CFR315.709]

[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. 315.709  Employees who are mentally retarded, severely physically 
handicapped, or have psychiatric disabilities serving under Schedule A 
appointments.

    (a) Coverage. Employees appointed under Sec. Sec. 213.3102(t), (u), 
and (gg) of this chapter may have their appointments converted to career 
or career-conditional appointments when they:
    (1) Complete 2 or more years of satisfactory service, without a 
break of more than 30 days, under nontemporary Schedule A appointments.
    (2) Are recommended for conversion by their supervisors;
    (3) Meet all requirements and conditions governing career and 
career-conditional appointment except those requirements concerning 
competitive selection from a register and medical qualifications; and
    (4) Are converted without a break in service of one workday.
    (b) Tenure on conversion. An employee converted 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 if he or she has completed 3 years of 
substantially continuous service in nontemporary appointments under 
Sec. Sec. 213.3102(t), (u), or (gg) of this chapter, or has otherwise 
completed the service requirement for career tenure, or is excepted from 
it by Sec. 315.201(c).
    (c) Acquisition of competitive status. A person whose employment is 
converted to career or career-conditional employment under this section 
acquires a competitive status automatically on conversion.

[44 FR 66574, Nov. 20, 1979; 44 FR 72569, Dec. 14, 1979, as amended at 
65 FR 41868, July 7, 2000]