Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse
Chapter 52 — Foreign Service
§ 4008. Retirement based on failure to meet standard of performance
Statutory text
The Secretary shall prescribe regulations concerning the standards of performance to be met by career members of the Service who are citizens of the United States. Whenever a selection board review indicates that the performance of such a career member of the Service may not meet the standards of performance for his or her class, the Secretary shall provide for administrative review of the performance of the member. The review shall include an opportunity for the member to be heard.
In any case where the administrative review conducted under subsection (a) substantiates that a career member of the Service has failed to meet the standards of performance for his or her class, the member shall be retired from the Service and receive benefits in accordance with section 4009 of this title.
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.
Pub. L. 96–465 title I § 608 · 94 Stat. 2071
Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 4008
(Pub. L. 96–465, title I, § 608, Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 2097.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 96–465, title I, § 608, Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 2097.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 608. Retirement Based on Relative Performance.— (a) The Performance standards, regulations. 22 USC 4008. Secretary shall prescribe regulations concerning the standards of performance to be met by career members of the Service who are Administrative review. citizens of the United States. Whenever a selection board review indicates that the performance of such a career member of the Service may not meet the standards of performance for his or her class, the Secretary shall provide for administrative review of the performance of the member. The review shall include an opportunity for the member to be heard. (b) In any case where the administrative review conducted under subsection (a) substantiates that a career member of the Service has failed to meet the standards of performance for his or her class, the member shall be retired from the Service and receive benefits in accordance with section 609.
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