[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 5, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 5CFR351.506]

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                    TITLE 5--ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL
 
                CHAPTER I--OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
 
PART 351_REDUCTION IN FORCE--Table of Contents
 
                      Subpart E_Retention Standing
 
Sec. 351.506  Effective date of retention standing.

    Except for applying the performance factor as provided in Sec. 
351.504:
    (a) The retention standing of each employee released from a 
competitive level in the order prescribed in Sec. 351.601 is determined 
as of the date the employee is so released.
    (b) The retention standing of each employee retained in a 
competitive level as an exception under Sec. 351.606(b), Sec. 351.607, 
or Sec. 351.608, is determined as of the date the employee would have 
been released had the exception not been used. The retention standing of 
each employee retained under any of these

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provisions remains fixed until completion of the reduction in force 
action which resulted in the temporary retention.
    (c) When an agency discovers an error in the determination of an 
employee's retention standing, it shall correct the error and adjust any 
erroneous reduction-in-force action to accord with the employee's proper 
retention standing as of the effective date established by this section.

[51 FR 319, Jan. 3, 1986, as amended at 60 FR 3063, Jan. 13, 1995; 62 FR 
10682, Mar. 10, 1997]