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[CITE: 5USC7122]

 
             TITLE 5--GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES
 
                           PART III--EMPLOYEES
 
           Subpart F--Labor-Management and Employee Relations
 
                 CHAPTER 71--LABOR-MANAGEMENT RELATIONS
 
             SUBCHAPTER III--GRIEVANCES, APPEALS, AND REVIEW
 
Sec. 7122. Exceptions to arbitral awards

    (a) Either party to arbitration under this chapter may file with the 
Authority an exception to any arbitrator's award pursuant to the 
arbitration (other than an award relating to a matter described in 
section 7121(f) of this title). If upon review the Authority finds that 
the award is deficient--
        (1) because it is contrary to any law, rule, or regulation; or
        (2) on other grounds similar to those applied by Federal courts 
    in private sector labor-management relations;

the Authority may take such action and make such recommendations 
concerning the award as it considers necessary, consistent with 
applicable laws, rules, or regulations.
    (b) If no exception to an arbitrator's award is filed under 
subsection (a) of this section during the 30-day period beginning on the 
date the award is served on the party, the award shall be final and 
binding. An agency shall take the actions required by an arbitrator's 
final award. The award may include the payment of backpay (as provided 
in section 5596 of this title).

(Added Pub. L. 95-454, title VII, Sec. 701, Oct. 13, 1978, 92 Stat. 
1212; amended Pub. L. 98-224, Sec. 4, Mar. 2, 1984, 98 Stat. 48.)


                               Amendments

    1984--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 98-224 amended subsec. (b) generally, 
substituting ``beginning on the date the award is served on the party'' 
for ``beginning on the date of such award''.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 7105, 7123 of this title; 
title 2 section 1351.
