20 U.S.C. § 125 — Employees of hospital

(a) Opportunity to transfer; guarantee of rights and benefits. The agreement transferring Freedmen's Hospital (described in section 124 of this title) must include several protections. (1) Every career or career-conditional hospital employee working there the day before the transfer must be offered a chance to move to Howard University — unless they were told, at least six months before the transfer, that their job was being eliminated. (2) Howard University must: (A) not cut the pay of employees who transfer; (B) keep making the required payments — both what the employee owes and what the employer owes — into the federal civil service retirement and disability fund (section 8348 of title 5) and into the fund referred to in section 8714 of title 5; (C) give transferred employees other benefits as close as practical to what federal civilian employees generally got on the transfer date; and (D) when figuring seniority, give transferred employees credit for their time at Freedmen's Hospital, the same as if they'd worked that time at Howard University. (3) The transfer must happen no later than the start of the second month after construction begins on the new hospital building authorized by section 126 of this title. (b) Placement of employees in comparable Federal positions. The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare must make every reasonable effort to find other, comparable federal jobs for career or career-conditional Freedmen's Hospital employees (as of September 21, 1961) who don't transfer to Howard University. (c) Services performed in the employ of United States. An employee who was at Freedmen's Hospital on September 21, 1961, and transfers to Howard University, keeps counting as a federal employee — for as long as they stay continuously employed by Howard University — for purposes of subchapter III of chapter 83 and chapter 87 of title 5. For purposes of section 3121(b) of title 26 and section 410 of title 42 (Social Security), their work time at Howard University counts as if it were performed in the employ of the United States.