Regulations last checked for updates: Feb 11, 2026

Title 5 - Administrative Personnel last revised: Feb 06, 2026
§ 315.702 - Employees serving without competitive examination in rare cases.

(a) Recommendation by agency. An agency may recommend to OPM that the employment of an employee who has completed at least 1 year of satisfactory service under § 316.601 be converted to career or career-conditional employment.

(b) Tenure on approval of recommendation. When OPM approves the agency's recommendation submitted under paragraph (a) of this section, the employee becomes:

(1) A career-conditional employee, except as provided in paragraph (b)(2) of this section;

(2) A career employee when he has completed the service requirement for career tenure or is excepted from it by § 315.201(c).

(c) Acquisition of competitive status. A person whose employment is converted to career or career-conditional employment under this section acquires a competitive status automatically on conversion.

authority: 5 U.S.C. 1302,3301,and. E.O. 10577, 19 FR 7521, 3 CFR, 1954-1958 Comp., p. 218; E.O. 14284, 90 FR 17729
source: 33 FR 12418, Sept. 4, 1968, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 5 CFR 315.702