5 USC § 3404 - Personnel ceilings

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identifier: "/us/usc/t5/s3404"
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title: "5 USC § 3404 - Personnel ceilings"
title_number: 5
title_name: "GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES"
section_number: "3404"
section_name: "Personnel ceilings"
chapter_number: 34
chapter_name: "PART-TIME CAREER EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES"
part_number: "III"
part_name: "EMPLOYEES"
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currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
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generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Added Pub. L. 95–437, § 3(a), Oct. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 1057, § 3394; renumbered § 3404, Pub. L. 95–454, title IX, § 906(c)(1)(B), Oct. 13, 1978, 92 Stat. 1226.)"
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# § 3404. Personnel ceilings

October 1, 1980

In administering any personnel ceiling applicable to an agency (or unit therein), an employee employed by such agency on a part-time career employment basis shall be counted as a fraction which is determined by dividing 40 hours into the average number of hours of such employee’s regularly scheduled workweek. This section shall become effective on .

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**Source Credit**: (Added Pub. L. 95–437, § 3(a), Oct. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 1057, § 3394; renumbered § 3404, Pub. L. 95–454, title IX, § 906(c)(1)(B), Oct. 13, 1978, 92 Stat. 1226.)

## Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1978— renumbered  as this section.