Title 22, Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-110

§4083b Overseas Operations Leave

Title 22 › CHAPTER 52 — FOREIGN SERVICE › SUBCHAPTER IX — TRAVEL, LEAVE, AND OTHER BENEFITS › § 4083b

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

Agency leaders can make rules to give up to 10 days of paid leave each leave year to agency employees working overseas so they can observe local holidays. The agency head alone chooses whether to allow this leave. Agency: an Executive agency, but not the Government Accountability Office. Employee: a civilian officer or worker appointed to federal service (civil or Foreign Service or a similar non-military appointment) by the President, Congress or other listed officials, who performs federal duties and is supervised by that appointing official. Leave year: starts on the first day of the first full pay period each calendar year and ends the day before that first day the next year.

Full Legal Text

Title 22, §4083b

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(a)Definitions

In this section

(1)

(2)the term “employee” means an officer or an individual who is—

(A)appointed in the civil service, the Foreign Service, or any appointment authority other than the uniformed services (as that term is defined in section 101 of title 37), by one of the following acting in an official capacity:

(i)The President.

(ii)A Member or Members of Congress, or Congress.

(iii)An individual who is an employee under this section.

(iv)The head of a Government-controlled corporation;

(B)engaged in the performance of a Federal function under authority of law or an Executive act; and

(C)subject to the supervision of an individual described in subparagraph (A) while engaged in the performance of the duties of his or her position; and

(3)the term “leave year” means the period beginning with the first day of the first complete pay period in a calendar year and ending with the day immediately before the first day of the first complete pay period in the following calendar year.

(b)Leave for overseas operations

The Secretary or other head of an agency may prescribe regulations to grant up to 10 days of paid leave, per leave year, to an employee of the agency serving abroad for the purpose of local holidays.

(c)Discretionary authority of the Secretary or other agency head

Use of the authority under subsection (b) is at the sole and exclusive discretion of the head of the agency concerned.

Reference

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Citation

22 U.S.C. § 4083b

Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110