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PUBLIC LAW 85-432-MAY 29, 1958

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Public Law 85-432 May 29, 1958

AN ACT

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To correct certain inequities with respect to automatic step-increase anniversary dates and longevity step-increases of postal field service employees.

Be it enacted bi/ the /Senate and House of Representatives of the ee^.°^*^^ *"^^°^" United States of America in Congress assembled. That each emLongevityiiv

ployee

(1) who is in the postal field service on the date of enactment of this section, (2) whose basic salary was adjusted under section 304 of the Postal Field Service Compensation Act of 1955 (Public Law 39 u^c 974 * ^^' Eighty-fourth Congress) and, immediately prior to such ad63 Stat. 954. justmeut, was paid under the Classification Act of 1949, as 5 USC 1071 note. amended, or under a prevailing wage schedule, (3) who, prior to such adjustment of salary, had performed service which was creditable toward his next within-grade step5 USC 1121. increase under section 701(a) of the Classification Act of 1949, as amended, or under such prevailing wage schedule, and (4) whose amount of increase in basic salary received upon adjustment of his basic salary under section 304 of the Postal Field Service Compensation Act of 1955 was less than the difference between the salary for that step of the grade of his position under the Classification Act of 1949, as amended, or of his position under such prevailing wa^e schedule, which he occupied immediately prior to such adjustment of salary and the salary at such time for the next higher step of such grade, shall, for purposes of the first advancement by step-increase under 39 USC 981. and in accordance with section 401 of the Postal Field Service Compensation Act of 1965— (A) have his anniversary date adjusted to the first day of his first pay period under such Act which begins on or after the date on which he would have earned a within-grade step-increase under the Classification Act of 1949, as amended, or a withingrade step-increase under such prevailing wage schedule, if his position had remained subject to the Classification Act of 1949, as amended, or subject to such schedule, as the case may be, unless his anniversary date under the Postal Field Service Compensation Act of 1955 which is in effect on the date of enactment of this section occurs earlier than such adjusted anniversary date, and (B) be paid, for all periods of service performed by him under the Postal Field Service Compensation Act of 1955 beginning on or after such adjusted anniversary date, the additional basic salary to which he becomes entitled under such Act by reason of this section, subject to and in accordance with the following requirements: (i) that any advancement of such employee by step-increase 39 USC 981. under section 401 of such Act which such employee may have received prior to the date of enactment of this section shall not be regarded as an equivalent increase in basic salary for purposes of such Act, and (ii) that the amount of additional basic salary to which such employee is entitled under clause (B) of this section is appropriately reduced by the amount of additional basic salary attributable to any advancement of such employee by step-increase under section 401 of such Act prior to the date of enactment of this section.

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