Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse
Chapter 52 — Foreign Service
§ 4104. Employee rights
Statutory text
Every employee has the right to form, join, or assist any labor organization, or to refrain from any such activity, freely and without fear of penalty or reprisal. Each employee shall be protected in the exercise of such right.
Except as otherwise provided under this subchapter, such right includes the right—
to act for a labor organization in the capacity of a representative and, in that capacity, to present the views of the labor organization to the Secretary and other officials of the Government, including the Congress, or other appropriate authorities; and
to engage in collective bargaining with respect to conditions of employment through representatives chosen by employees under this subchapter.
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 § 1004 · 94 Stat. 2071
Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 4104
(Pub. L. 96–465, title I, § 1004, Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 2130.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 96–465, title I, § 1004, Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 2130.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 1004. Employee Rights.— (a) Every employee has the right to form, join, or assist any labor organization, or to refrain from any such activity, freely and without fear of penalty or reprisal. Each employee shall be protected in the exercise of such right. (b) Except as otherwise provided under this chapter, such right includes the right— (1) to act for a labor organization in the capacity of a representative and, in that capacity, to present the views of the labor organization to the Secretary and other officials of the Government, including the Congress, or other appropriate authorities; and (2) to engage in collective bargaining with respect to conditions of employment through representatives chosen by employees under this chapter.
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