---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 U.S.C. § 6503"
title: "5"
title_heading: "Government Organization and Employees"
number: "6503"
heading: "Training and monitoring"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/5/6503"
units:
  - "Part III — Employees"
  - "Subpart E — Attendance and Leave"
  - "Chapter 65 — Telework"
---

# §6503. Training and monitoring

- (a) **In General.—** The head of each [executive agency](/usc/5/6501.md?p=2) shall ensure that—
  - (1) an interactive [telework](/usc/5/6501.md?p=3) training program is provided to—
    - (A) [employees](/usc/5/6501.md?p=1) eligible to participate in the [telework](/usc/5/6501.md?p=3) program of the [agency](/usc/5/500.md?p=a-1); and
    - (B) all managers of teleworkers;
  - (2) except as provided under [subsection (b)](#b), an [employee](/usc/5/6501.md?p=1) has successfully completed the interactive [telework](/usc/5/6501.md?p=3) training program before that [employee](/usc/5/6501.md?p=1) enters into a written agreement to [telework](/usc/5/6501.md?p=3) described under [section 6502(b)(2)](/usc/5/6502.md?p=b-2);
  - (3) teleworkers and nonteleworkers are treated the same for purposes of—
    - (A) periodic appraisals of job performance of [employees](/usc/5/6501.md?p=1);
    - (B) training, rewarding, reassigning, promoting, reducing in grade, retaining, and removing [employees](/usc/5/6501.md?p=1);
    - (C) work requirements; or
    - (D) other acts involving managerial discretion; and
  - (4) when determining what constitutes diminished [employee](/usc/5/6501.md?p=1) performance, the [agency](/usc/5/500.md?p=a-1) shall consult the performance management guidelines of the Office of Personnel Management.
- (b) **Training Requirement Exemptions.—** The head of an [executive agency](/usc/5/6501.md?p=2) may provide for an exemption from the training requirements under [subsection (a)](#a), if the head of that [agency](/usc/5/500.md?p=a-1) determines that the training would be unnecessary because the [employee](/usc/5/6501.md?p=1) is already [teleworking](/usc/5/6501.md?p=3) under a work arrangement in effect before the date of enactment of this chapter.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 111–292, § 2(a), Dec. 9, 2010, 124 Stat. 3166.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The date of enactment of this chapter, referred to in subsec. (b), is the date of enactment of Pub. L. 111–292, which was approved Dec. 9, 2010.