---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 U.S.C. § 3595a"
title: "5"
title_heading: "Government Organization and Employees"
number: "3595a"
heading: "Furlough in the Senior Executive Service"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/5/3595a"
units:
  - "Part III — Employees"
  - "Subpart B — Employment and Retention"
  - "Chapter 35 — Retention Preference, Voluntary Separation Incentive Payments, Restoration, and Reemployment"
  - "Subchapter V — Removal, Reinstatement, and Guaranteed Placement in the Senior Executive Service"
---

# §3595a. Furlough in the Senior Executive Service

- (a) For the purposes of this section, “[furlough](/usc/5/7511.md?p=a-5)” means the placement of a [senior executive](/usc/5/3132.md?p=a-3) in a temporary status in which the [senior executive](/usc/5/3132.md?p=a-3) has no duties and is not paid when the placement in such status is by reason of insufficient work or [funds](/usc/5/8401.md?p=6) or for other nondisciplinary reasons.
- (b) An [agency](/usc/5/3132.md?p=a-1) may [furlough](/usc/5/7511.md?p=a-5) a [career appointee](/usc/5/3132.md?p=a-4) only in accordance with regulations issued by the [Office](/usc/5/5402.md?p=3) of Personnel Management.
- (c) A [career appointee](/usc/5/3132.md?p=a-4) who is furloughed is entitled to appeal to the Merit [Systems](/usc/5/8401.md?p=29) Protection [Board](/usc/5/8401.md?p=5) under [section 7701 of this title](/usc/5/7701.md).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 98–615, title III, § 306(c)(1), Nov. 8, 1984, 98 Stat. 3220.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective following expiration of 90-day period beginning on Nov. 8, 1984, see section 307 of Pub. L. 98–615, set out as an Effective Date of 1984 Amendment note under section 3393 of this title.