5 U.S.C. § 8138 — Minimum limit modification for noncitizens and aliens

submitted 60 years ago by Pub. L. 89-554 to r/title-5-GOVERNMENT-ORGANIZATION-AND-EMPLOYEES · 162 words · no verdicts yet

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Normally there's a guaranteed minimum monthly workers' compensation payment. That minimum doesn't apply to noncitizen employees hurt outside the continental United States. The Secretary of Labor can still set a special minimum for groups of them, and the President can adjust the rule for Panama Canal workers.

(a) Except as (b) provides, the usual minimum limits — the minimum monthly disability compensation under section 8112 and the minimum monthly pay used to compute death compensation under section 8133 — do not apply to a noncitizen employee, or class of noncitizen employees, who sustain injury outside the continental United States. The Secretary of Labor may still establish a minimum monthly pay for computing death compensation for a class or classes of these noncitizen employees. (b) For an alien employee, or class of alien employees, of the Canal Zone Government or the Panama Canal Company, the President may remove or modify those same minimum limits — on disability compensation under section 8112 and on the pay used to compute death compensation under section 8133.

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(a)

Except as provided by subsection (b) of this section, the minimum limit on monthly compensation for disability under section 8112 of this title and the minimum limit on monthly pay on which death compensation is computed under section 8133 of this title do not apply in the case of a noncitizen employee, or a class or classes of noncitizen employees, who sustain injury outside the continental United States. The Secretary of Labor may establish a minimum monthly pay on which death compensation is computed in the case of a class or classes of such noncitizen employees.

(b)

The President may remove or modify the minimum limit on monthly compensation for disability under section 8112 of this title and the minimum limit on monthly pay on which death compensation is computed under section 8133 of this title in the case of an alien employee, or a class or classes of alien employees, of the Canal Zone Government or the Panama Canal Company.

Source credit: (Pub. L. 89–554, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 550.)

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1966Enacted · Pub. L. 89-554 · 80 Stat. 550

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