---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 U.S.C. § 3403"
title: "5"
title_heading: "Government Organization and Employees"
number: "3403"
heading: "Limitations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/5/3403"
units:
  - "Part III — Employees"
  - "Subpart B — Employment and Retention"
  - "Chapter 34 — Part-Time Career Employment Opportunities"
---

# §3403. Limitations

- (a) An [agency](/usc/5/3132.md?p=a-1) shall not abolish any [position](/usc/5/5102.md?p=a-3) occupied by an [employee](/usc/5/4701.md?p=a-2) in order to make the duties of such [position](/usc/5/5102.md?p=a-3) available to be performed on a [part-time career employment](/usc/5/3401.md?p=2) basis.
- (b) Any [person](/usc/5/7103.md?p=a-1) who is employed on a full-time basis in an [agency](/usc/5/3132.md?p=a-1) shall not be required to accept part-time employment as a condition of continued employment.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 95–437, § 3(a), Oct. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 1057, § 3393; renumbered § 3403, Pub. L. 95–454, title IX, § 906(c)(1)(B), Oct. 13, 1978, 92 Stat. 1226.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1978—Pub. L. 95–454 renumbered section 3393 of this title as this section.