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Title 5: Administrative Personnel
CHAPTER I: OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
SUBCHAPTER B: CIVIL SERVICE REGULATIONS
PART 317: EMPLOYMENT IN THE SENIOR EXECUTIVE SERVICE
Subpart I: Reassignments, Transfers, and Details
317.903 - Details.
(a) Definition. In this section, detail means the temporary assignment of an SES member to another position (within or outside of the SES) or the temporary assignment of a non-SES member to an SES position, with the expectation that the employee will return to the official position of record upon expiration of the detail. For purposes of pay and benefits, the employee continues to encumber the position from which detailed. The provisions of this section cover details within or outside of the employing agency.
(b) Time limits. (1) Details within an executive agency or military department must be made in no more than 120-day increments.
(2) An agency may not detail an SES employee to unclassified duties for more than 240 days.
(3) An agency must use competitive procedures when detailing a non-SES employee to an SES position for more than 240 days unless the employee is eligible for a noncompetitive career SES appointment.
(4) An agency must obtain OPM approval for a detail of more than 240 days if the detail is of:
(i) A non-SES employee to an SES position that supervises other SES positions; or
(ii) An SES employee to a position at the GS-15 or equivalent level or below.
(c) SES career reserved positions. Only a career SES appointee or a career-type non-SES appointee may be detailed to a career reserved position.
(d) SES general positions. Any SES appointee or non-SES appointee may be detailed to a general position.
[54 FR 9760, Mar. 8, 1989, as amended at 60 FR 6387, Feb. 2, 1995]
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