{"data":{"id":"us/5-cfr-315.705","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"5 CFR 315.705","heading":"Employees serving under transitional or veterans recruitment appointments.","body":"(a) Agency action. (1) An agency shall convert the employment of an employee who has served continuously under a transitional appointment for at least 1 year to career or career-conditional employment within 90 calendar days after he completes the program of education or training approved for him.\n(2) Within 30 calendar days after an employee completes (i) 2 years of substantially continuous service under a veterans recruitment appointment or under a combination of transitional and veterans recruitment appointments and (ii) his training or educational programs, the employing agency shall convert his appointment to career or career-conditional employment.\n(b) Tenure. Upon conversion of his employment, the employee becomes:\n(1) A career-conditional employee, except as provided in paragraph (b)(2) of this section;\n(2) A career employee if he has completed the service requirement for career tenure or is excepted from it by § 315.201(c).\n(c) Acquisition of competitive status. An employee 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":"491748acf8657cb75983d384aeb3f508c0d34ff08e9e313f443a01240cf685da","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/5-cfr-315.704","next":"us/5-cfr-315.706"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}