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Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Chapter 52 — Foreign Service

§ 3966. Within-class salary increases

Statutory text

(a)

Time period; limitation

Any member of the Service receiving a salary under the Foreign Service Schedule shall be advanced to the next higher salary step in the member’s class at the beginning of the first applicable pay period following the completion by that member of a period of—

(1)

52 calendar weeks of service in each of salary steps 1 through 9, and

(2)

104 calendar weeks of service in each of salary steps 10 through 13,

unless the performance of the member during that period is found in a review by a selection board established under section 4002 of this title to fall below the standards of performance for his or her salary class.

(b)

Additional increase for meritorious service

The Secretary may grant, on the basis of especially meritorious service, to any member of the Service receiving an increase in salary under subsection (a), an additional salary increase to any higher step in the salary class in which the member is serving.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 96–465 title I § 406 · 94 Stat. 2071

    Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 3966

    (Pub. L. 96–465, title I, § 406, Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 2089.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 96–465, title I, § 406, Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 2089.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 406. Within-Class Salary Increases.— (a) Any member of the 22 USC 3966. Service receiving a salary under the Foreign Service Schedule shall be advanced to the next higher salary step in the member’s class at the beginning of the first applicable pay period following the completion by that member of a period of— (1) 52 calendar weeks of service in each of salary steps 1 through 9, and (2) 104 calendar weeks of service in each of salary steps 10 through 13, unless the performance of the member during that period is found in a review by a selection board established under section 602 to fall below the standards of performance for his or her salary class. (b) The Secretary may grant, on the basis of especially meritorious service, to any member of the Service receiving an increase in salary under subsection (a), an additional salary increase to any higher step in the salary class in which the member is serving.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Pub. L. 96–465, title I, § 406, , 94 Stat. 2089.)

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