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§7135 Continuation of Existing Laws, Recognitions, Agreements, and Procedures

Title 5 › PART III — EMPLOYEES › Subpart F — Labor-Management and Employee Relations › CHAPTER 71 — LABOR-MANAGEMENT RELATIONS › SUBCHAPTER IV — ADMINISTRATIVE AND OTHER PROVISIONS › § 7135

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

Allows agencies to keep or renew exclusive recognition, certification of an exclusive representative, or lawful agreements with employee representatives that were made before the law took effect. It also allows recognition for groups of managers or supervisors if a labor organization has traditionally represented such managers in private industry and already had exclusive recognition in any agency on the law’s effective date. Policies, rules, procedures, and decisions issued under Executive Orders 11491, 11616, 11636, 11787, and 11838, or under other Executive Orders as they existed on the law’s effective date, must stay in force until the President changes or cancels them, or until this law or its regulations or decisions replace them.

Full Legal Text

Title 5, §7135

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(a)Nothing contained in this chapter shall preclude—
(1)the renewal or continuation of an exclusive recognition, certification of an exclusive representative, or a lawful agreement between an agency and an exclusive representative of its employees, which is entered into before the effective date of this chapter; or
(2)the renewal, continuation, or initial according of recognition for units of management officials or supervisors represented by labor organizations which historically or traditionally represent management officials or supervisors in private industry and which hold exclusive recognition for units of such officials or supervisors in any agency on the effective date of this chapter.
(b)Policies, regulations, and procedures established under and decisions issued under Executive Orders 11491, 11616, 11636, 11787, and 11838, or under any other Executive order, as in effect on the effective date of this chapter, shall remain in full force and effect until revised or revoked by the President, or unless superseded by specific provisions of this chapter or by regulations or decisions issued pursuant to this chapter.

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For the

Effective Date

of this chapter, referred to in text, as 90 days after the date of the enactment of Pub. L. 95–454, which was approved Oct. 13, 1978, see section 907 of Pub. L. 95–454, set out as an

Effective Date

of 1978 Amendment note under section 1101 of this title. Executive Orders 11491, 11616, 11636, and 11838, referred to in subsec. (b), are set out as notes under section 7101 of this title. Executive Order 11787, referred to in subsec. (b), which was set out as a note under section 7701 of this title, was revoked by Ex. Ord. No. 12553, Feb. 25, 1986, 51 F.R. 7237.

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Effective Date

Section effective 90 days after Oct. 13, 1978, see section 907 of Pub. L. 95–454, set out as an

Effective Date

of 1978 Amendment note under section 1101 of this title.

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Citation

5 U.S.C. § 7135

Title 5, Government Organization and Employees

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102