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[CITE: 22USC3964]

 
               TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
 
                       CHAPTER 52--FOREIGN SERVICE
 
                       SUBCHAPTER IV--COMPENSATION
 
Sec. 3964. Assignments to salary class

    (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 or section 3968 of 
this title) 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 of this chapter.
    (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 of 
this chapter. 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.

(Pub. L. 96-465, title I, Sec. 404, Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 2088; Pub. 
L. 103-236, title I, Sec. 180(a)(3), Apr. 30, 1994, 108 Stat. 415.)


                               Amendments

    1994--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 103-236 struck out ``who are family 
members of Government employees paid in accordance with a local 
compensation plan established under'' after ``section 3967 of this title 
or''.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 3947, 4001 of this title.
