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22 U.S.C. § 3967 — Salaries for Foreign Service personnel abroad who perform routine duties
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**(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](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title29-section206/a/1&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(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).
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**(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](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title29-section206/a/1&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(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).
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**(a) Appointment of family members** The Secretary, under [section 3943 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section3943&num=0&edition=prelim), may appoint United States citizens, who are family members of government employees assigned abroad or are hired for service at their post of residence, for employment in positions customarily filled by Foreign Service officers, Foreign Service personnel, and foreign national employees.
**(b) Family nexus as affirmative hiring factor** The fact that an applicant for employment in a position referred to in subsection (a) is a family member of a Government employee assigned abroad shall be considered an affirmative factor in employing such person.
**(c) Compensation of family and non-family member employees**
(1) Non-family members employed under this section for service at their post of residence shall be paid in accordance with local compensation plans established under [section 3968 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section3968&num=0&edition=prelim).
(2) Family members employed under this section shall be paid in accordance with the Foreign Service Schedule or the salary rates established under [section 3967 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section3967&num=0&edition=prelim).
(3) In exceptional circumstances, non-family members may be paid in accordance with the Foreign Service Schedule or the salary rates established under [section 3967 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section3967&num=0&edition=prelim), if the Secretary determines that the national interest would be served by such payments.
**(d) Non-family member employees in
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**(a)** The Secretary shall assign all Foreign Service officers and Foreign Service personnel (other than Foreign Service personnel who are paid in accordance with [section 3967 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section3967&num=0&edition=prelim) or [section 3968 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section3968&num=0&edition=prelim)) to appropriate salary classes in the Foreign Service Schedule.
**(b)**
(1) The salary class to which a member of the Service is assigned under this section shall not be affected by the assignment of the member to a position classified under subchapter V.
(2) Except as authorized by subchapter I of chapter 35 of title 5, changes in the salary class of a member of the Senior Foreign Service or a member of the Service assigned to a salary class in the Foreign Service Schedule shall be made only in accordance with subchapter VI. The Secretary shall prescribe regulations (which shall be consistent with the relevant provisions of subchapter VI of chapter 53 of title 5 and with the regulations prescribed to carry out such provisions) providing for retention of pay by members of the Service in cases in which reduction-in-force procedures are applied.
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Except as provided in [section 4010(a)(2) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section4010/a/2&num=0&edition=prelim), the Secretary may terminate at any time the appointment of any member of the Service serving under a limited appointment who is in the Senior Foreign Service, who is assigned to a salary class in the Foreign Service Schedule or who is paid in accordance with [section 3967 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section3967&num=0&edition=prelim) or is a United States citizen paid under a compensation plan under [section 3968 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section3968&num=0&edition=prelim).
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TITLE 22—FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
§ 3967
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 espe-
cially 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.
(Pub. L. 96–465, title I, § 406, Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat.
2089.)
§ 3967. 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 Serv-
ice 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 gen-
erally performed by Foreign Service personnel
assigned to class 9 in the Foreign Service Sched-
ule, in accordance with the salary rates estab-
lished under subsection (a).
(Pub. L. 96–465, title I, § 407, Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat.
2090.)
§ 3968. Local compensation plans
(a) Establishment; rates of pay; leaves of ab-
sence; supplemental payments; transfer from
Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund
(1) The Secretary shall establish compensation
(including position classific
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