Appointment of former employees of the Canal Zone Merit System or Panama Canal Employment System.

CFR · 2024-01-01 · US · Title 5

(a) (b) (c) (i) Is a preference eligible; or (ii) Has completed at least 3 years of service, which did not include any break in service longer than 30 days, under one or more career-conditional or career appointments in the Canal Zone Merit System and/or the Panama Canal Employment System. (2) An agency may appoint under this section an employee who does not meet the conditions in (c)(1) of this section provided no more than 3 years have elapsed since: (i) separation from a qualifying Canal Zone Merit System or Panama Canal Employment System appointment; or (ii) separation from service in Panama in a position excluded from the Canal Zone Merit System or Panama Canal Employment System, when such service immediately followed service under a qualifying appointment in one of those systems. (d) (2) A former Canal Zone Merit System and/or Panama Canal Employment System employee whose service from the date of career-conditional appointment in the Canal Zone Merit System or Panama Canal Employment System through the date of noncompetitive appointment under this section, inclusive, does not include any break in service of more than 30 days and totals at least 3 years becomes a career employee. (3) All other former Canal Zone Merit System and Panama Canal Employment System employees become career-conditional employees. (e) (1) On appointment, if he or she has satisfactorily completed a 1-year probationary period under the Canal Zone Merit System and/or the Panama Canal Employment Syste

official document · source cfr-2024 · id 5:§ 315.601