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 to derive a basic annual rate of compensation, divide such basic annual rate of compensation by two thousand and eighty, and multiply the quotient by one and one-half. TITLE III-COMPENSATION FOR NIGHT AND HOLIDAY WORK NIGHT PAY DIFFERENTIAL SEO. 301. Any officer or employee to whom this title applies who is assigned to a regularly scheduled tour of duty, any part of which falls between the hours of 6 o'clock postmeridian and 6 o'clock ante- meridian, shall, for duty between such hours, excluding periods when he is in a leave status, be paid compensation at a rate 10 per centum in excess of his basic rate of compensation for duty between other Diffential not I- hours: Provided, That such differential for night duty shall not be included in computing any overtime compensation to which the officer or employee may be entitled: And provided further,That this section 58 stat. 64. shall not operate to modify the provisions of the Act of July 1, 1944 Iv,1 is0. SPPp (Public Law Numbered 394, Seventy-eighth Congress), or any other law authorizing additional compensation for night work. COMPENSATION FOR HOLIDAY WORK SEO. 302. Officers and employees to whom this title applies who are assigned to duty on a holiday designated by Federal statute or Execu- tive order shall be compensated for such duty, excluding periods when they are in leave status, in lieu of their regular pay for that day, at the rate of one and one-half times the regular basic rate of compensation: Provided, That extra holiday compensation paid under this section shall not serve to reduce the amount of overtime compensation to which the employee may be entitled under this or any other Act during the administrative workweek in which the holi- day occurs, but such extra holiday compensation shall not be consid- ered to be a part of the basic compensation for the purpose of com- puting such overtime compensation. This section shall take effect upon the cessation of hostilities in the present war as proclaimed by the President, or at such earlier time as the Congress by concurrent resolution may prescribe. Prior to so becoming effective, it shall be effective with respect to any designated holiday only if the President has declared that such day shall not be generally a workday in the Federal service. TITLE IV-AMENDMENTS TO CLASSIFICATION ACT OF 1923, AS AMENDED ESTABLISHMENT OF RATES FOR CLASSES OF POSITIONS WITHIN GRADES 42 st. ls9. SEC. 401. Section 3 of the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, is amended by inserting at the end of such section a paragraph read- ing as follows: Rates for lates "In subdividing any grade into classes of positions, as provided in the foregoing paragraph, the Civil Service Commission, whenever it deems such action warranted by the nature of the duties and respon- sibilities of a class of positions in comparison with other classes in the same grade, and in the interests of good administration, is authorized to establish for any such class a minimum rate, which shall be one of the pay rates, but not in excess of the middle rate, of that grade as set CM, p. .of forth in section 13 of this Act, as amended. Whenever the Commis- equities. sion shall find that within the same Government organization and at the same location gross inequities exist between basic per annum rates 298 PUBLIC LAWS--CH. 212-JUNE 30, 1945 [59 STAT.

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