Title 22 — Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-73not60
§6481 Business Codes of Conduct
Title 22 › Chapter 73— INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM › Subchapter V— MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS › § 6481
Summary
Congress wants multinational companies that work overseas, especially ones in countries named in the Annual Report for religious freedom problems, to adopt codes of conduct. Those codes should protect employees’ right to practice their religion and make sure a worker’s religion or peaceful religious practices do not affect their job status or job conditions.
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Title 22, §6481
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(a)Congress recognizes the increasing importance of transnational corporations as global actors, and their potential for providing positive leadership in their host countries in the area of human rights.
(b)It is the sense of the Congress that transnational corporations operating overseas, particularly those corporations operating in countries the governments of which have engaged in or tolerated violations of religious freedom, as identified in the Annual Report, should adopt codes of conduct—
(1)upholding the right to freedom of religion of their employees; and
(2)ensuring that a worker’s religious views and peaceful practices of belief in no way affect, or be allowed to affect, the status or terms of his or her employment.
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22 U.S.C. § 6481
Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse
Last Updated
Apr 5, 2026
Release point: 119-73not60