[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: 5CFR315.710]

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                    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. 315.710  Professional and administrative career employees serving 
under Schedule B appointments.

    (a) Coverage. This section covers employees serving in occupations 
that were covered by the Professional and Administrative Career 
Examination on August 30, 1982, and that were listed in the consent 
decree entered on November 19, 1981, by the U.S. District Court for the 
District of Columbia in the civil

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action known as Luevano v. Devine and numbered as No. 79-271. Those 
occupations are designated in these regulations as professional and 
administrative career (PAC) occupations or positions. OPM will publish a 
listing of PAC occupations.
    (b) Eligibility. An agency may, but is not required to, convert 
appointments of employees occupying PAC positions under nontemporary 
appointments effected under Sec. 213.3202(1) of this chapter to career 
or career-conditional appointments at the GS-9 level in any position in 
a PAC occupation when such employees--
    (1) Complete at least 1 year of Schedule B service at the GS-7 level 
that meets the quality of experience requirement for the GS-9 position 
in which converted (less than full-time service is credited according to 
the relation it bears to the full-time workweek);
    (2) Demonstrate performance that warrants conversion at GS-9 (a 
current performance rating of fully successful or better for the year 
immediately preceding conversion is necessary for this purpose);
    (3) Meet all requirements and conditions governing career and 
career-conditional appointment except those requirements concerning 
competitive selection from a register;
    (4) Are converted without a break in service of one workday or more; 
and
    (5) Are converted as a result of a deliberate decision by 
management.
    (c) Tenure on conversion. An employee converted under paragraph (a) 
of this section becomes--
    (1) A career-conditional employee, except as provided in paragraph 
(c)(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. 213.3202(l) of this chapter, or has otherwise completed the 
service requirement for career tenure, or is excepted from it by Sec. 
315.201(c).
    (d) 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.

[52 FR 25194, July 6, 1987, as amended at 52 FR 43722, Nov. 15, 1987; 66 
FR 66710, Dec. 27, 2001]