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PUBLIC LAW 89-554-SEPT. 6, 1966

SUBCHAPTER IV—PREVAILING RATE SYSTEMS § 5341. Trades and crafts (a) The pay of employees excepted from chapter 51 of this title by section 5102(c)(7) of this title shall be fixed and adjusted from time to time as nearly as is consistent with the public interest in accordance with prevailing rates. (b) When the Civil Service Commission concurs in a finding by the employing agency that in a given area the number of employees to whom this section applies is so few as to make prevailing rate determinations impracticable, these employees are subject to the provisions of subchapter III of this chapter and chapter 51 of this title which are applicable to positions of equivalent difficulty or responsibility. § 5342. Crews of vessels (a) Except as provided by subsection (b) of this section, the pay of officers and members of crews of vessels excepted from chapter 51 of this title by section 5102(c)(8) of this title shall be fixed and adjusted from time to time as nearly as is consistent with the public interest in accordance with prevailing rates and practices in the maritime industry. (b) Vessel employees of the Panama Canal Company may be paid in accordance with the wage practices of the maritime industry. § 5343. Effective date of pay increase Each increase in rates of basic pay granted, pursuant to a wage survey, to employees whose pay is fixed and adjusted under section 5341 of this title is effective, as follows: (1) If the wage survey is made by an agency, either alone or with another agency, with respect to its own employees, the increase is effective for its employees not later than the first day of the first pay period which begins after the 44th day, excluding Saturdays and Sundays, following the date on which the wage survey was ordered to be made. (2) If the wage survey is made by an agency, either alone or with another agency, and is used by an agency which did not participate in making the survey, the increase is effective for the employees of the agency which did not participate in the survey not later than the first day of the first pay period which begins after the 19th day, excluding Saturdays and Sundays, following the date on which the agency which did not participate receives the data collected in the survey necessary for the granting of the increase. § 5344. Retroactive pay (a) Retroactive pay is payable by reason of an increase in rates of basic pay referred to in section 5343 of this title only when— (1) the individual is in the service of the United States, including service in the armed forces, or the government of the District of Columbia on the date of the issuance of the order granting the increase; or (2) the individual retired or died during the period beginning on the effective date of the increase and ending on the date of issuance of the order granting the increase, and only for services performed during that period. (b) For the purpose of this section, service in the armed forces includes the period provided by statute for the mandatory restoration of the individual to a position in or under the Government of the United States or the government of the District of Columbia after he is relieved from training and service in the armed forces or discharged from hospitalization following that training and service.

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