5 C.F.R. § 575.102 Definitions.
Title 5 - Administrative Personnel
Title 5: Administrative Personnel
PART 575—RECRUITMENT, RELOCATION, AND RETENTION INCENTIVES; SUPERVISORY DIFFERENTIALS; AND EXTENDED ASSIGNMENT INCENTIVES
Subpart A—Recruitment Incentives
§ 575.102 Definitions.
In this subpart:
Agency means an executive agency or a legislative branch agency included in 5 U.S.C. 5102(a)(1).
Authorized agency official means the head of an agency or an official who is authorized to act for the head of the agency in the matter concerned.
Competencies means the knowledge, skills, abilities, behaviors, and other characteristics an individual needs to perform the duties of a position.
Employee has the meaning given that term in 5 U.S.C. 2105, except that the term also includes an employee described in 5 U.S.C. 2105(c). An employee also means an individual not yet employed who has received a written offer to be newly appointed or reappointed and has signed the written service agreement required by §575.110 before payment of the recruitment incentive.
Employee of the Federal Government means an employee (as that term is defined in 5 U.S.C. 2105, except that the term also includes an employee described in 5 U.S.C. 2105(c) and (e)) of any part of the Government of the United States (which includes the United States Postal Service and the Postal Rate Commission).
Executive agency has the meaning given that term in 5 U.S.C. 105.
Newly appointed refers to—
(1) The first appointment, regardless of tenure, as an employee of the Federal Government;
(2) An appointment as a former employee of the Federal Government following a break in service of at least 90 days; or
(3) An appointment as an employee of the Federal Government when the employee's Federal service during the 90-day period immediately preceding the appointment was limited to one or more of the following:
(i) A time-limited or non-permanent appointment in the competitive or excepted service;
(ii) Employment with the government of the District of Columbia (DC) when the candidate was first appointed by the DC government on or after October 1, 1987;
(iii) An appointment as an expert or consultant under 5 U.S.C. 3109 and 5 CFR part 304;
(iv) Service as an employee of a nonappropriated fund instrumentality (NAFI) of the Department of Defense (when moving from a Department of Defense NAFI position to another Department of Defense position) or the Coast Guard (when moving from a Coast Guard NAFI position to another Coast Guard position) if the individual has a break in service of more than 3 days from the nonappropriated fund instrumentality;
(v) Service as an employee of a nonappropriated fund instrumentality of the Department of Defense when moving to a position outside of the Department of Defense or of the Coast Guard when moving to a position outside the Coast Guard; or
(vi) Employment under a provisional appointment designated under 5 CFR 316.403.
OPM means the Office of Personnel Management.
Rate of basic pay means the rate of pay fixed by law or administrative action for the position to which an employee is or will be appointed before deductions and including any special rate under 5 CFR part 530, subpart C, or similar payment under other legal authority, and any locality-based comparability payment under 5 CFR part 531, subpart F, or similar payment under other legal authority, but excluding additional pay of any other kind. For example, a rate of basic pay does not include additional pay such as night shift differentials under 5 U.S.C. 5343(f) or environmental differentials under 5 U.S.C. 5343(c)(4).
Service agreement means a written agreement between an agency and an employee under which the employee agrees to a specified period of employment of not less than 6 months or more than 4 years with the agency in return for payment of a recruitment incentive.
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