---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 3653"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "3653"
heading: "Employment standards"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/3653"
units:
  - "Chapter 51 — Panama Canal"
  - "Subchapter I — Administration and Regulations"
  - "Part 2"
  - "Subpart ii — wage and employment practices"
---

# §3653. Employment standards


The [Commission](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=2) shall establish written standards for—

- (1) determining the qualifications and fitness of [employees](/usc/22/3651.md?p=3) and of candidates for employment in [positions](/usc/22/3651.md?p=2); and
- (2) selecting individuals for appointment, promotion, or transfer to [positions](/usc/22/3651.md?p=2).

The standards shall conform to the provisions of this subpart, any regulations prescribed thereunder, and the Panama Canal Employment System.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–70, title I, § 1213, Sept. 27, 1979, 93 Stat. 464; Pub. L. 104–201, div. C, title XXXV, § 3531, Sept. 23, 1996, 110 Stat. 2863.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1996—Pub. L. 104–201 substituted “The Commission” for “The head of each agency” in introductory provisions.

### Executive Documents

### Coordination of Pay and Employment Practices

For provisions requiring consultations with the Secretary of Defense for agencies under this subpart with respect to the establishment of rates of pay and other matters deemed appropriate by the Secretary in order to develop compatible or unified systems of basic pay and employment practices, see section 1–201 of Ex. Ord. No. 12215, May 27, 1980, 45 F.R. 36043, set out as a note under section 3601 of this title.