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[CITE: 5USC3597]

 
             TITLE 5--GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES
 
                           PART III--EMPLOYEES
 
                   Subpart B--Employment and Retention
 
     CHAPTER 35--RETENTION PREFERENCE, RESTORATION, AND REEMPLOYMENT
 
SUBCHAPTER VI--REEMPLOYMENT FOLLOWING LIMITED APPOINTMENT IN THE FOREIGN 
                                 SERVICE
 
Sec. 3597. Reemployment following limited appointment in the 
        Foreign Service
        
    An employee of any agency who accepts, with the consent of the head 
of that agency, a limited appointment in the Foreign Service under 
section 309 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 is entitled, upon the 
expiration of that appointment, to be reemployed in that employee's 
former position or in a corresponding or higher position in that agency. 
Upon reemployment under this section, an employee shall be entitled to 
any within-grade increases in pay which the employee would have received 
if the employee had remained in the former position in the agency.

(Added Pub. L. 96-465, title II, Sec. 2301(a), Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 
2164.)

                       References in Text

    Section 309 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980, referred to in text, 
is classified to section 3949 of Title 22, Foreign Relations and 
Intercourse.


                             Effective Date

    Section effective Feb. 15, 1981, except as otherwise provided, see 
section 2403 of Pub. L. 96-465, set out as a note under section 3901 of 
Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in title 22 section 3950.
