---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 C.F.R. § 216.24"
title: "20"
number: "216.24"
heading: "Relinquishment of rights to return to work."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/20/216.24"
---

# §216.24. Relinquishment of rights to return to work.

- (a) **What return to work rights must be given up.** Before an individual may receive an annuity based on age, he or she must give up any seniority or other rights to return to work for any railroad employer.
- (b) **When right to return to work is ended.** An individual's right to return to work for a railroad employer is ended whenever any of the following events occur:
  - (1) The employer reports to the Board that the individual no longer has the right;
  - (2) The individual or an authorized agent of that individual gives the employer an oral or written notice of the individual's wish to give up that right and:
    - (i) The individual certifies to the Board that the right has been given up;
    - (ii) The Board notifies the employer of the individual's certification; and
    - (iii) The employer either confirms the individual's right has been given up or fails to reply within 10 days following the day the Board mailed the notice to the employer;
  - (3) An event occurs which under the established rules or practices of the employer automatically ends that right;
  - (4) The employer or the individual or both take an action which clearly and positively ends that right;
  - (5) The individual never had that right and permanently stops working;
  - (6) The Board gives up that right for the individual, having been authorized to do so by the individual;
  - (7) The individual dies; or
  - (8) The individual signs a statement that he or she gives up all rights to return to work in order to receive a separation allowance or severance pay.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 45 U.S.C. 231f.

### Source

Source: 56 FR 28692, June 24, 1991, unless otherwise noted.