Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 76.djvu/890

 PUBLIC LAW 87-793-OCT. 11, 1962

842

Report to Congress.

Higher minimum compensation rates. Presidential authority.

Post,

p. 843.

74 Stat. 607.

72 Stat, 1243; Post, p. 859. Post, 862.

pp. 861,

Compensation rates, revision.

Post, p. 847. P o s t, p. 854.

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enterprise as determined on the basis of appropriate annual surveys conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and, after seeking the views of such employee organizations as he deems appropriate and in such manner as he may provide, (2) shall report annually to the Congress (a) this comparison of Federal and private enterprise salary rates and (b) such recommendations for revision of statutory salary schedules, salary structures, and compensation policy, as he deems advisable. SEC. 504. (a) Whenever the President shall find that the salary rates in private enterprise for one or more occupations in one or more areas or locations are so substantially above the salary rates of statutory pay schedules as to handicap significantly the Government's recruitment or retention of well-qualified persons in positions compensated under (1) section 603(b) of the Classification Act of 1949, as amended (5 U.S.C. 1113(b)), (2) the provisions of part III of title 39, United States Code, relating to personnel in the postal field service, (3) the pay scales for physicians, dentists, and nurses in the Department of Medicine and Surgery of the Veterans' Administration under chapter 73 of title 38, United States Code, or (4) sections 412 and 415 of the Foreign Service Act of 1946, as amended (22 U.S.C. 867 and 870), he may establish for such areas or locations higher minimum rates of basic compensation for one or more grades or levels, occupational groups, series, classes, or subdivisions thereof, and may make corresponding increases in all step rates of the salary range for each such grade or level: Provided,, That in no case shall any minimum salary rate so established exceed the seventh salary rate prescribed by law for the grade or level. The President may authorize the exercise of the authority conferred upon him by this section by' the Civil Service Commission or, in the case of employees not subject to the civil service laws and regulations, by such other agency or agencies as he may designate. (b) Within the limitations specified in subsection (a), rates of basic compensation established under such subsection may be revised from time to time by the President or by such agency or agencies as he may designate. Such actions or revisions shall have the force and effect of law. (c) Any increase in rate of basic compensation established under this section shall not be regarded as an "equivalent increase" in compensation within the meaning of section 701(a) of the Classification Act of 1949, as amended, and section 3552 of title 39 of the United States Code. SEC. 505. The functions, duties, and regulations of the departments and the Civil Service Commission with respect to this title, the Classification Act of 1949, as amended, the provisions of part III of title 39, United States Code, relating to personnel in the postal field service, the Foreign Service Act of 1946, as amended, and the provisions of chapter 73 of title 38 of the United States Code relating to personnel of the Department of Medicine and Surgery in the Veterans' Administration, shall be subject to such policies and rules as the President may issue. Among other things, the President's policies and rules may provide for— (1) preparing and reporting to him the annual comparison of Federal salary rates with private enterprise rates, (2) obtaining and reporting to him the views of employee organizations on such annual comparison, and on other salary matters, (3) reviewing and reporting to him on the adequacy of the Federal statutory salary structures for the Federal programs to which they apply.

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