Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 76.djvu/903

 76 STAT. ]

855

PUBLIC LAW 87-793-OCT. 11, 1962

the salary level from which promoted. An employee who is promoted to a position in the Postal Field Service Schedule which is more than two salary levels above the level of the position from which promoted shall be paid basic compensation at the lowest step of the higher salary level which exceeds his existing basic compensation by not less than three steps of the salary level from which promoted. If there is no step in the salary level to which the employee is promoted which exceeds his existing basic compensation by at least the amount of the specified difference, the employee shall be paid the rate for the maximum step of the salary level to which promoted, or his existing basic compensation, whichever is higher.". SEC. 708. Subsection (a)(4) of section 6402 of title 39, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: "(4) delivery and collection service may not be established or extended under a star route contract on a rural route except when such rural route does not meet the minimum standards established by the Postmaster General, and becomes vacant; and". SEC. 709. Section 3101 of title 39, United States Code, is amended by deleting paragraphs (5) and (6), and inserting in lieu thereof, the following: "(5) 'basic salary' and 'basic compensation' mean the rate of annual or hourly compensation specified by law, exclusive of overtime and night differential.". SEC. 710. Subsection 3541(d) of title 39, United States Code, is amended by (a) inserting in paragraph (3) thereof, after "rural carriers," the phrase "(other than substitute rural carriers,)" and (b) adding a new paragraph (5) as follows: "(5) To compute the daily rate of basic compensation for substitute rural carriers, the annual rate of compensation shall be divided by 304.".

Star route contract. 74 Stat. 696.

Definitions. 74 Stat. 607.

Compensation^ 74 Stat. 644.

CONVERSION AS OF THE F I R S T P A Y PERIOD B E G I N N I N G ON OR AFTER THE DATE OF E N ACT M E N T OF T H I S ACT

SEC. 711. (a) The basic compensation of each employee subject to Postal Field Service Schedule I or Rural Carrier Schedule I, as the Ante, case may be, on the effective date of such schedule shall be determined 852. as follows: (1) Each employee shall be assigned t^ the same numerical level and step he was in prior to the effective date of such schedule, except that employees in the first four levels of the Postal Field Service Schedule and employees (except empiloyees subject to section 3543(j) of title 39, United States Code) in the Rural Ante, Carrier Schedule shall be advanced as follows: Employees in step 1 to step 2 of the new schedule; step 2 to step 3; step 3 to step 4; step 4 to step 5; step 5 to step 6; step 6 to step 7; step, 7 to step 8. If changes in level or step would other w i ^ ocStijr on the effective date of such schedule without regard to the e»-' actment of such schedule, such changes shall be deemed to have occurred prior to conversion under this paragraph. (2) I n addition to conversion under paragraph (1) of this subsection, each employee shall be advanced one additional step for each longevity step which he had earned on or prior to such conversion. (3) Credit toward the next step-increase (other than toward longevity steps) earned by an employee who had not reached step 7 or who is not advanced to step 7 under paragraph (1) prior to the effective date of such schedule shall oe creditable under Jiubsection 3552(a) and section 3663 of title 3Q, United States Ante,

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p. 852.

p. 854. 74 Stat. 649.

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