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[CITE: 5USC7131]

 
             TITLE 5--GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES
 
                           PART III--EMPLOYEES
 
           Subpart F--Labor-Management and Employee Relations
 
                 CHAPTER 71--LABOR-MANAGEMENT RELATIONS
 
           SUBCHAPTER IV--ADMINISTRATIVE AND OTHER PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 7131. Official time

    (a) Any employee representing an exclusive representative in the 
negotiation of a collective bargaining agreement under this chapter 
shall be authorized official time for such purposes, including 
attendance at impasse proceeding, during the time the employee otherwise 
would be in a duty status. The number of employees for whom official 
time is authorized under this subsection shall not exceed the number of 
individuals designated as representing the agency for such purposes.
    (b) Any activities performed by any employee relating to the 
internal business of a labor organization (including the solicitation of 
membership, elections of labor organization officials, and collection of 
dues) shall be performed during the time the employee is in a non-duty 
status.
    (c) Except as provided in subsection (a) of this section, the 
Authority shall determine whether any employee participating for, or on 
behalf of, a labor organization in any phase of proceedings before the 
Authority shall be authorized official time for such purpose during the 
time the employee otherwise would be in a duty status.
    (d) Except as provided in the preceding subsections of this 
section--
        (1) any employee representing an exclusive representative, or
        (2) in connection with any other matter covered by this chapter, 
    any employee in an appropriate unit represented by an exclusive 
    representative,

shall be granted official time in any amount the agency and the 
exclusive representative involved agree to be reasonable, necessary, and 
in the public interest.

(Added Pub. L. 95-454, title VII, Sec. 701, Oct. 13, 1978, 92 Stat. 
1214.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in title 2 section 1351.
