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title: "5 U.S.C. § 3408"
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title_number: 5
title_name: "GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES"
chapter_number: "34"
chapter_name: "PART-TIME CAREER EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES"
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# 5 U.S.C. § 3408 - Employee organization representation

## Text

If an employee organization has been accorded exclusive recognition with respect to a unit within an agency, then the employee organization shall be entitled to represent all employees within that unit employed on a part-time career employment basis.

(Added Pub. L. 95–437, § 3(a), Oct. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 1058, § 3398; renumbered § 3408, Pub. L. 95–454, title IX, § 906(c)(1)(B), Oct. 13, 1978, 92 Stat. 1226.)

## Notes

Editorial Notes

Amendments1978—Pub. L. 95–454 renumbered section 3398 of this title as this section.