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Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Chapter 52 — Foreign Service

§ 3967. Salaries for Foreign Service personnel abroad who perform routine duties

Statutory text

(a)

The Secretary may establish salary rates at rates lower than those established for the Foreign Service Schedule for the Foreign Service personnel described in subsection (b). The rates established under this subsection may be no less than the then applicable minimum wage rate specified in section 206(a)(1) of title 29.

(b)

The Secretary may pay Foreign Service personnel who are recruited abroad, who are not available or are not qualified for assignment to another Foreign Service post, and who perform duties of a more routine nature than are generally performed by Foreign Service personnel assigned to class 9 in the Foreign Service Schedule, in accordance with the salary rates established under subsection (a).

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 § 407 · 94 Stat. 2071

    Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 3967

    (Pub. L. 96–465, title I, § 407, Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 2090.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 96–465, title I, § 407, Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 2090.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 407. Salaries for Foreign Service Personnel Abroad Who Perform Routine Duties.— (a) The Secretary may establish salary rates at rates lower than those established for the Foreign Service Schedule for the Foreign Service personnel described in subsection (b). The rates established under this subsection may be no less than the then applicable minimum wage rate specified in section 6(a)(1) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 206(a)(1)). (b) The Secretary may pay Foreign Service personnel who are recruited abroad, who are not available or are not qualified for assignment to another Foreign Service post, and who perform duties of a more routine nature than are generally performed by Foreign Service personnel assigned to class 9 in the Foreign Service Schedule, in accordance with the salary rates established under subsection (a).

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Pub. L. 96–465, title I, § 407, , 94 Stat. 2090.)

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