Sec. 706. Career Counseling
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## Sec. 706 Career Counseling **[**[22 U.S.C. 4026](/us/usc/t22/s4026)**]** ###
(a)In order to facilitate their transition from the Service, the Secretary may provide (by contract or otherwise, subject to the availability of appropriations) professional career counseling, advice, and placement assistance to members of the Service, and to former members of the Service who were assigned to receive counseling and assistance under this subsection before they were separated from the Service, other than those separated for cause. Career counseling and related services provided pursuant to this Act shall not be construed to permit an assignment that consists primarily of paid time to conduct a job search and without other substantive duties for more than one month. ###
(b)####
(1)The Secretary shall implement such measures as the Secretary considers necessary to facilitate the employment of spouses and members of the Service. The measures may include—14 14Section 6203(1)(A) of division F of Public Law 117-81 provides for an amendment to strike “The Secretary may facilitate the employment of spouses of members of the Foreign Service by—” and insert “The Secretary shall implement such measures as the Secretary considers necessary to facilitate the employment of spouses and members of the Service. The measures may include—”. Such amendment should have not included the word “Foreign” in the stricken matter because it does not appear in law; however, it was executed to reflect the probable intent of Congress. #####
(A)providing regular career counseling for such spouses; #####
(B)maintaining a centralized system for cataloging their skills and the various governmental and nongovernmental employment opportunities available to them; and ##### (D)15 otherwise assisting them in obtaining employment. 15There is no subparagraph
(C)in law. Section 6203(1)(B) and
(C)of division F of Public Law 117–81 provides for amendments to redesignate subparagraph
(C)as subparagraph
(D)and by “amending subparagraph
(C)to read as follows:”. The latter amendment could not be executed because there was no subparagraph
(C)to amend to read due to its prior redesignation as subparagraph (D). The quoted block of subparagraph
(C)reads as follows: “(C) establishing a program for assisting eligible family members in accessing employment and education opportunities, as appropriate, including by exercising the authorities, in relevant part, under sections 1784 and 1784a of title 10, United States Code, and subject to such regulations as the Secretary may prescribe modeled after those prescribed pursuant to subsection
(b)of such section 1784;”. #### (2)16 The Secretary may prescribe regulations— #####
(A)to provide preference to eligible family members in hiring for any civilian position in the Department, notwithstanding the prohibition on marital discrimination found in 5 U.S.C. 2302(b)(1)(E), if — ######
(i)the eligible family member is among persons determined to be best qualified for the position; and ######
(ii)the position is located in the overseas country of assignment of their sponsoring employee; #####
(B)to ensure that notice of any vacant position in the Department is provided in a manner reasonably designed to reach eligible family members of sponsoring employees whose permanent duty stations are in the same country as that in which the position is located; and #####
(C)to ensure that an eligible family member who applies for a vacant position in the Department shall, to the extent practicable, be considered for any such position located in the same country as the permanent duty station of their sponsoring employee. 16Margins of paragraphs
(2)through
(5)(as added by section 6203(3) of division F of Public Law 117–81) do not conform with margins of existing paragraphs in this subsection. ####
(3)Nothing in this section may be construed to provide an eligible family member with entitlement or preference in hiring over an individual who is preference eligible. ####
(4)Under regulations prescribed by the Secretary, a chief of mission may, consistent with all applicable laws and regulations pertaining to the ICASS system, make available to an eligible family member and a non-Department entity space in an embassy or consulate for the purpose of the non-Department entity providing employment-related training for eligible family members. ####
(5)The Secretary may work with the Director of the Office of Personnel Management and the heads of other Federal departments and agencies to expand and facilitate the use of existing Federal programs and resources in support of eligible family member employment. ####
(6)The Secretary shall establish a family liaison office to carry out this subsection and such other functions as the Secretary may determine. ####
(7)In this subsection, the term “**eligible family member**” refers to family members of government employees assigned abroad or hired for service at their post of residence who are appointed by the Secretary of State or the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development pursuant to sections 102, 202, 303, and 311.
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