(a) Opportunity to transfer; guarantee of rights and benefits The agreement for transfer of Freedmens Hospital referred to in section
124 of this title shall include provisions to assure that
(1) all individuals who are career or career-conditional employees of the hospital on the day preceding the effective date of the transfer of the hospital, except those in positions with respect to which they have been notified not less than six months prior to the effective date of such transfer that their positions are to be abolished, will be offered an opportunity to transfer to Howard University;
(2) Howard University
(A) will not reduce the salary levels for such employees who transfer,
(B) will deposit currently
(i) in the civil service retirement and disability fund referred to in section
8348 of title
5, the employee deductions and agency contributions required by subchapter III of chapter
83 of title
5, and
(ii) in the fund referred to in section
8714 of title
5, the employee deductions and agency contributions required by chapter
87 of title
5.
(C) will provide other benefits for such employees as nearly equivalent as may be practicable to those generally applicable, on the effective date of the transfer of the hospital, to civilian employees of the United States, and
(D) in determining the seniority rights of its employees, Howard University will credit service with Freedmens Hospital performed by such employees who transfer, on the same basis as it would credit such service had it been performed for such University;
(3) the transfer will become effective not later than the beginning of the second month which begins after construction of the new hospital facilities authorized by section
126 of this title is commenced.
(c) Services performed in the employ of United States Each individual who is an employee of Freedmens Hospital on September 21, 1961 and who transfers to Howard University shall, so long as he is continuously in the employ of Howard University, be regarded as continuing in the employ of the United States for the purposes of subchapter III of chapter
83 of title
5, chapter
87 of title
5. For purposes of section
3121 (b) of title
26 and section
410 of title
42, service performed by such individual during the period of his employment at Howard University shall be regarded as though performed in the employ of the United States.
