---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 4112"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "4112"
heading: "Employees represented"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/4112"
units:
  - "Chapter 52 — Foreign Service"
  - "Subchapter X — Labor-Management Relations"
---

# §4112. Employees represented


The [employees](/usc/22/4102.md?p=8) of the [Department](/usc/22/3902.md?p=4) shall constitute a single and separate worldwide bargaining unit, from which there shall be excluded—

- (1) [employees](/usc/22/4102.md?p=8) engaged in personnel work in other than a purely clerical capacity; and
- (2) [employees](/usc/22/4102.md?p=8) engaged in criminal or national security investigations or who audit the work of individuals to insure that their [functions](/usc/22/3902.md?p=6) are discharged honestly and with integrity.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–465, title I, § 1012, Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 2135.)