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§ 3557. Automatic advancement of substitute employee deferred The Postmaster General shall defer the automatic promotion of a substitute employee who is absent on leave without pay and not available for duty for ninety days or more during a calendar year in proportion to the time the employee is absent on leave without pay. § 3558. Longevity step increases (a) There are established for each employee longevity steps A, B, and C. For each promotion to a longevity step— (1) each postmaster at a post office of the fourth class shall receive an amount equal to 5 per centum of his basic salary, or $100 per annum, whichever is the lesser, and (2) each employee, other than a postmaster at a post office of the fourth class, shall receive $100 per annum. In computing the percentage increase under this subsection the amount of the increase shall be rounded to the nearest dollar. A half dollar or one-half cent shall be rounded to the next highest dollar or cent, respectively. (b) Each employee shall be assigned to— (1) longevity step A at the beginning of the pay period following the completion of thirteen years of service; (2) longevity step B at the beginning of the pay period following the completion of eighteen years of service; and (3) longevity step C at the beginning of the pay period following the completion of twenty-five years of service. (c)(1) There shall be credited, for the purposes of subsection (b) time on the rolls— (A) in the postal field service or in the Post Office Department, except time on the rolls as a substitute rural carrier; _^ (B) in the custodial service of the Department of the Treasury continuous to the date of the transfer of the employee to the custodial service of the Post Office Department in accordance 5 USC 124-132 with Executive Order Numbered 6166, dated June 10, 1933; note. (C) as a special delivery messenger at a first class post office; (D) as a clerk in a third class post office for which payment is made from authorized allowances; (E) under the Postal Accounts Division, including time on the rolls under the former Post Office Department Division, in the General Accounting Office continuous to the date of the transfer of the employee to the Post Office Department in accordance with section 7(a) of the Post Office Department Financial Control 64 Stat. 460. Act of 1950; and (F) in the Panama Canal Zone postal service. (2) In determining longevity credit for the purposes of subsection (b) in the case of an employee whose continuous service in the postal field service or in the departmental service of the Post Office Department is interrupted by service with the Armed Forces or to comply with a transfer during war or national emergency as defined by the United States Civil Service Commission, time engaged in that service with the Armed Forces or on the transfer shall be credited pro rata for each week of the service. Service specified in this subsection, whether continuous or intermittent, shall be credited on the basis of one week for each whole week the employee has been on the rolls, except that credit may not be allowed for time on the rolls under a temporary appointment for one year or less unless the time on the rolls is continuous to the date of appointment to a position of unlimited duration. (d) Increases under this section are not equivalent increases within the meaning of section 3552 of this title.

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