[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 5, Volume 1, Parts 1 to 699]
[Revised as of January 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 5CFR315.707]

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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. 315.707  Disabled veterans.

    (a) Eligibility. (1) Subject to requirements concerning 
qualifications and probationary period published by the Office in the 
Federal Personnel Manual, an agency may convert the employment of a 
disabled veteran who meets the conditions below to career or career-
conditional employment from a time-limited appointment of more than 60 
days.
    (2) To be eligible for conversion under this paragraph, the veteran 
must:
    (i) Have been retired from active military service with a disability 
rating of 30 percent or more;
    (ii) Have been rated by the Veterans Administration within the 
preceding year as having a compensable service-connected disability of 
30 percent or more; or
    (iii) Have had such a rating by the Veterans Administration at the 
time of a qualifying temporary appointment effected within the year 
immediately preceding the conversion.
    (b) Tenure on conversion. (1) Except as provided in paragraph (b)(2) 
of this section, a person converted under paragraph (a) of this section 
becomes a career-conditional employee.
    (2) A person appointed under paragraph (a) of this section becomes a 
career employee if excepted from the service requirement for career 
tenure by Sec. 315.201(c).
    (c) Acquisition of competitive status. A person converted under 
paragraph (a) of this section acquires a competitive status 
automatically on completion of probation.

[44 FR 44813, July 31, 1979. Redesignated at 44 FR 63080, Nov. 2, 1979]