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PUBLIC LAW 85-872-SEPT. 2, 1958

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Public Law 85-872 September 2, 1958 [S. 25]

Wage board emp l o y e e s compensation i n c r e a s e. Effective dates.

68 Stat. 1106. 70A Stat. 4 6 3.

Retroactivi compensation.

64 Stat. 395.

70 Stat. 743. 5 USC 2251 ieq.

AN ACT Relating to effective dates of increases in compensation granted to wage board employees. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That each increase in rates of basic compensation granted, pursuant to a wage survey, to employees of the Federal Government or of the municipal government of the District of Columbia whose compensation is fixed and adjusted from time to time as nearly as is consistent with the public interest in accordance with prevailing rates under authority of section 202(7) of the Classification Act of 1949 (5 U.S.C. 1082 (7)) or section 7474 of title 10 of the United States Code shall become effective, as follows: (1) if the wage survey is conducted by a department or agency (either alone or with one or more other departments or agencies) with respect to its own employees, such increase shall become effective for such employees not later than the first day of the first pay period which begins on or after the forty-fifth day, excluding Saturdays and Sundays, following the date on which such wage survey was ordered to be made; and (2) if the wage survey is conducted by a department or agency (either alone or with one or more other departments or agencies) and is utilized by any department or agency which did not conduct such wage survey, such increase shall become effective, for the employees of the department or agency utilizing such wage survey, not latei' than the first day of the first pay period which begins on or after the twentieth day, excluding Saturdays and Sundays, following the date on which the department or agency utilizing such wage survey receives the data collected in such wage survey and necessary for the granting of such increase. SEC. 2 (a) Retroactive compensation shall be paid, by reason of any increase in rates of basic compensation referred to in the first section'of this Act, only in the case of an individual in the service of the United States (including service in the Armed Forces of the United States) or the municipal government of the District of Columbia on the date of issuance of the order granting such increase, except that such retroactive compensation shall be payable— (1) to an employee who retired during the period beginning on the effective date of the increase in rates of basic compensation and ending on the date of issuance of the order granting such increase, for services rendered during such period, and (2) in accordance with the provisions of the Act of August o, 1950 (Public Law 636, Eighty-first Congress), as amended (5 U.S.C. 61f-61k), for services rendered during the period described in paragraph (1) of this subsection, by an employee who dies during such period. (b) Such retroactive compensation shall not be considered as basic salary for the purposes of the Civil Service Retirement Act in the case of any such retired or deceased employee. (c) For the purposes of this section, service in the Armed Forces of the United States, in the case of an individual relieved from training and service in the Armed Forces of the United States or discharged from hospitalization following such training and service, shall include the period provided by law for the mandatory restoration of such individual to a position in or under the Federal Government or the municipal government of the District of Columbia.

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