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10 U.S.C. § 129 — Civilian personnel management

submitted 45 years ago by Pub. L. 97-86 to r/title-10-ARMED-FORCES · 220 words · no verdicts yet

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The Defense Department must manage its civilian staff using three things only: workforce policy, actual workload, and available funding. It can't be forced to cap headcount or full-time positions instead. The Secretary of Defense and military department secretaries can't be forced to cut jobs except as this section and section 129a allow. For each budget area, the Secretary must ensure enough staff with the right skills to do the work.

(a) Each fiscal year, the Defense Department's civilian workforce must be managed based only on: (1) the total-force management policies and procedures established under section 129a of this title; (2) the actual workload needed to carry out the department's functions and activities; and (3) the funds made available to the department for that fiscal year. Managing this workforce in any fiscal year cannot be restricted by any cap on person-years, total staff size ("end strength"), full-time-equivalent positions, or maximum employee count. The Secretary of Defense and the secretaries of the military departments cannot be required to reduce the number of full-time-equivalent positions in the Department of Defense except as this section and section 129a of this title require. (b) For each budget category within a fiscal year's operation-and-maintenance appropriation, the Secretary of Defense must ensure that the department employs the number of workers — with the mix of skills and qualifications — needed to carry out that budget category's functions, as determined under the total-force management policies and procedures established under section 129a of this title.
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(a)

The civilian personnel of the Department of Defense shall be managed each fiscal year solely on the basis of and consistent with (1) the total force management policies and procedures established under section 129a of this title, (2) the workload required to carry out the functions and activities of the department, and (3) the funds made available to the department for such fiscal year. The management of such personnel in any fiscal year shall not be subject to any constraint or limitation in terms of man years, end strength, full-time equivalent positions, or maximum number of employees. The Secretary of Defense and the Secretaries of the military departments may not be required to make a reduction in the number of full-time equivalent positions in the Department of Defense except in accordance with the requirements of this section and section 129a of this title.

(b)

With respect to each budget activity within an appropriation for a fiscal year for operations and maintenance, the Secretary of Defense shall ensure that there are employed during that fiscal year employees in the number and with the combination of skills and qualifications that are necessary to carry out the functions within that budget activity as determined under the total force management policies and procedures established under section 129a of this title.

Source credit: (Added Pub. L. 97–86, title IX, § 904(a), Dec. 1, 1981, 95 Stat. 1114, § 140b; renumbered § 129, Pub. L. 99–433, title I, § 101(a)(3), Oct. 1, 1986, 100 Stat. 994; amended Pub. L. 99–661, div. A, title V, § 533, Nov. 14, 1986, 100 Stat. 3873; Pub. L. 102–190, div. A, title III, § 312(b), Dec. 5, 1991, 105 Stat. 1335; Pub. L. 104–106, div. A, title X, § 1031, Feb. 10, 1996, 110 Stat. 428; Pub. L. 104–201, div. A, title X, § 1074(a)(1), title XVI, § 1603, Sept. 23, 1996, 110 Stat. 2658, 2735; Pub. L. 105–85, div. A, title XI, § 1101, Nov. 18, 1997, 111 Stat. 1922; Pub. L. 106–65, div. A, title X, § 1067(1), Oct. 5, 1999, 113 Stat. 774; Pub. L. 112–81, div. A, title IX, § 932, Dec. 31, 2011, 125 Stat. 1543; Pub. L. 114–328, div. A, title XI, § 1101(a), (b)(1), Dec. 23, 2016, 130 Stat. 2443; Pub. L. 116–92, div. A, title XI, § 1103, Dec. 20, 2019, 133 Stat. 1596; Pub. L. 117–81, div. A, title XI, § 1102, Dec. 27, 2021, 135 Stat. 1949; Pub. L. 119–60, div. A, title IV, § 422(b)(2), (3), Dec. 18, 2025, 139 Stat. 850, 851.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit
  • 1981Enacted · Pub. L. 97-86 · 95 Stat. 1114
  • 1986Amended · Pub. L. 99-433 · 100 Stat. 994
  • 1986Amended · Pub. L. 99-661 · 100 Stat. 3873
  • 1991Amended · Pub. L. 102-190 · 105 Stat. 1335
  • 1996Amended · Pub. L. 104-106 · 110 Stat. 428
  • 1996Amended · Pub. L. 104-201 · 110 Stat. 2658, 2735
  • 1997Amended · Pub. L. 105-85 · 111 Stat. 1922
  • 1999Amended · Pub. L. 106-65 · 113 Stat. 774
  • 2011Amended · Pub. L. 112-81 · 125 Stat. 1543
  • 2016Amended · Pub. L. 114-328 · 130 Stat. 2443
  • 2019Amended · Pub. L. 116-92 · 133 Stat. 1596
  • 2021Amended · Pub. L. 117-81 · 135 Stat. 1949
  • 2025Amended · Pub. L. 119-60 · 139 Stat. 850, 851

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by Pub. L. 97-86 on 1981-12-01.

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