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 76 STAT. ]

PUBLIC LAW 87-793-OCT. 11, 1962

857

BASIC SALARY I N CASES OF A S S I G N M E N T S OF POSTAL E M P L O Y E E S

SEC. 714. (a) Section 3335(b) of title 39, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sentence: "The Postmaster General may pay, as he deems advisable, in cases of such assignments, a basic salary computed in accordance with the provisions of such section 3559 without regard to the requirement in this subsection of assignment for more than thirty days in a calendar year.". (b) Each payment of an increase in basic salary which was made prior to the date of enactment of this section for services performed for periods of thirty days or less in any calendar year in the course of an assignment referred to in section 3335(b) of title 39, United States Code, by a postal field service employee assigned to duties and responsibilities of a higher salary level, and which would have been authorized by such section 3335(b), if such services had been performed in the course of such assignment after the completion by such employee of thirty days of service in any calendar year in such higher salary level, are hereby validated to the same extent as if such services had been performed after the completion of thirty days of service in any calendar year in the course of such assignment. Payments of increases validated by this subsection shall be considered as basic salary for the purposes of the Civil Service Retirement Act (5 U.S.C. 2251-2267). SALARY PROTECTION

74 Stat.eu.

Ante. p. 854.

70 Stat. 743.

REVISION

SEC. 715. (a) Section 3560(a)(1) of title 39, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: "(1) basic salary and salary level, with respect to the Postal Field Service Schedule,". (b) Section 3560(b)(4) of title 39, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: "(4) who, for two continuous years immediately prior to such reduction in salary standing, served in the postal field service with any salary standing higher than the salary standing to which he is reduced; and ". (c) Section 3560(c) of title 39, United States Code, is amended— (1) by striking out the period at the end of paragraph (B) and inserting "; or" in lieu of such period, and (2) by adding at the end of such section 3560(c) the following paragraph: " (C) the amount of the rate in the lowest salary standing which such employee held during the two years immediately preceding such reduction in salary standing augmented by each step increase which he would have earned in such salary standing and by each increase provided by law in such salary rate.". (d)(1) Subject to paragraph (2) of this section, the amendments made by this section to sections 3560(a)(1), 3560(b)(4), and 3560(c) of title 39, United States Code, shall apply only with respect to reductions in salary standing occurring on or after the date of enactment of this Act. (2) Payments not authorized by section 3560 of title 39, United States Code, which were made prior to the date of enactment of this Act to employees in the postal field service in connection with reductions in salary standing and which would have been authorized under such section 3560 if the amendments made by this section to subsections (b)(4) and (c) of such section 3560 had been in effect at the time such payments were made, are hereby validated to the same extent as if such amendments had been in effect at such time.

7S Stat. 559.

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