5 U.S.C. § 5596
Back pay due to unjustified personnel action
United States · Title 5 — GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES · Status: effective
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- 5 U.S.C. § 5596, Back pay due to unjustified personnel action, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/427072
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For the purpose of this section, “agency” means—
An employee of an agency who, on the basis of a timely appeal or an administrative determination (including a decision relating to an unfair labor practice or a grievance) is found by appropriate authority under applicable law, rule, regulation, or collective bargaining agreement, to have been affected by an unjustified or unwarranted personnel action which has resulted in the withdrawal or reduction of all or part of the pay, allowances, or differentials of the employee—
is entitled, on correction of the personnel action, to receive for the period for which the personnel action was in effect—
for all purposes, is deemed to have performed service for the agency during that period, except that—
Such interest—
Legislative history
The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone. The law that originally enacted this section predates the public laws loaded here, so only later amendments are listed.
- An Act to amend title 5, United States Code, to provide that annual leave lost by a Federal employee because of an unjustified or unwarranted personnel action shall be restored to the employee, and for other purposes.House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Civil Service Reform Act of 1978House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- A bill to make certain technical and clerical amendments to title 5, United States Code.House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Foreign Service Act of 1980House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- A joint resolution making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 1988, and for other purposes.House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Administrative Office of the United States Courts Personnel Act of 1990House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999
- Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2002House: 374–52Senate: no recorded tally
- Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015House: 219–206Senate: no recorded tally