compensation for junior foreign service officers

compensation for junior foreign service officers Sec. 412. (a) (1) Paragraph (2) of section 5541 of title 5, United States Code, is amended— (A) by striking out “or” at the end of clause (xii) ; (B) by striking out the period at the end of clause (xiii) and inserting in lieu thereof a semicolon ; and (C) by adding at the end thereof the following clauses: 91 STAT. 856 “(xiv) a ‘Foreign Service officer’ within the meaning of section 401 of the Foreign Service Act of 1946; or “(xv) a ‘Foreign Service information officer’ as provided for by the first section of the Act entitled ‘An Act to promote the foreign policy of the United States by strengthening and improving the Foreign Service personnel system of the United States Information Agency through establishment of a Foreign Service Information Officer Corps’, approved August 20, 1968.”. (2) The amendments made by paragraph (1) shall take effect on October 1, 1978. (b) (1) The President shall increase the amount of each rate of per annum salary in classes 5 through 8 of Foreign Service officers in the table contained in section 412 of the Foreign Service Act of 1946 (22 U.S.C. 867), by $250. (2) Pay may not be paid, by reason of the increase provided under paragraph (1), at a rate in excess of the rate of basic pay for level V of the Executive Schedule under section 5316 of title 5, United States Code. (3) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 414 of the Foreign Service Act of 1946 (22 U.S.C. 869), the rate of per annum salary of a Foreign Service Reserve officer shall not be increased by reason of the increase made by paragraph (1). (4) The increase made by reason of paragraph (1) shall apply with respect to pay periods beginning on or after October 1, 1978, and shall be in addition to any increase or adjustment made under subchapter I of chapter 53 of title 5, United States Code.