Competitive Status Law and Legal Definition
According to 5 CFR 1.3 [Title 5 -- Administrative Personnel; Chapter I -- Office of Personnel Management], competitive status shall mean "the basic eligibility to be noncompetitively selected to fill a vacancy in a competitive position. A competitive status shall be acquired by career-conditional or career appointment through open competitive examination upon satisfactory completion of a probationary period, or may be granted by statute, executive order, or the Civil Service Rules without competitive examination. A person with competitive status may be promoted, transferred, reassigned, reinstated, or demoted without taking an open competitive examination, subject to the conditions prescribed by the Civil Service Rules and Regulations."
