{"data":{"id":"us/5-cfr-315.702","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"5 CFR 315.702","heading":"Employees serving without competitive examination in rare cases.","body":"(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.\n(b) Tenure on approval of recommendation. When OPM approves the agency's recommendation submitted under paragraph (a) of this section, the employee becomes:\n(1) A career-conditional employee, except as provided in paragraph (b)(2) of this section;\n(2) A career employee when he has completed the service requirement for career tenure or is excepted from it by § 315.201(c).\n(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.","path":["Title 5—Administrative Personnel","CHAPTER I—OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT","SUBCHAPTER B—CIVIL SERVICE REGULATIONS","PART 315—CAREER AND CAREER-CONDITIONAL EMPLOYMENT","Subpart G—Conversion to Career or Career-Conditional Employment From Other Types of Employment"],"source_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-08-25/title-5.xml","current_through":"2026-08-25","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T02:23:53Z","sha256":"3a2ec6af526a1c3616a0f529d9a91de23bd77ab6d692e70ed05ac92001acb243","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/5-cfr-315.701","next":"us/5-cfr-315.703"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}