[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: 5CFR315.711] [Page 165] 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. 315.711 Readers, interpreters, and personal assistants serving under Schedule A appointments. (a) Agency authority. An agency may convert noncompetitively to career or career-conditional employment, a reader, interpreter, or personal assistant: (1) Who completed at least 1 year of satisfactory service in such a position under a non-temporary appointment under 5 CFR 213.3102(11); and (2) Whose employment in such a position is no longer necessary for reasons beyond management control, e.g. resignation or reassignment of the employee being assisted. (b) Tenure on appointment. (1) Except as provided in paragraph (b)(2) of this section, a person appointed 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 when he or she has completed the service requirement for career tenure or is excepted from it by Sec. 315.201(c). (c) Acquisition of competitive status. A person appointed under paragraph (a) of this section acquires a competitive status automatically on appointment. [55 FR 12327, Apr. 3, 1990]