§297 — Title 2 The Congress | U.S. Code

Summary

When a House employee moves into a higher HS pay level or their job is moved to a higher level, they must be paid at a step in that higher level. The pay is set by the first rule that fits: (1) the lowest step in the new level whose pay equals the pay two steps above the employee’s old step; (2) the lowest step in the new level that is at least two steps higher than their old pay; or (3) whichever is higher—the new level’s top step or the employee’s previous pay. The committee may make rules to pick the correct step the same way for employees under the House Wage Schedule (HWS).

Title 2, §297

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(a)Each employee in a compensation level of the House Employees Schedule (HS), who is appointed to a position in a higher compensation level of such schedule, or whose position is placed in a higher compensation level of such schedule pursuant to a reclassification of such position, shall be paid compensation in such higher compensation level, in accordance with the following provisions, whichever is first applicable in the following numerical order of precedence:

(1)at the rate of the lowest step for which the rate of compensation equals the rate of compensation for that step, in the compensation level from which he is appointed, which is two steps above the step in such level which he had attained immediately prior to such appointment;

(2)at the rate of the lowest step for which the rate of compensation exceeds, by not less than two steps of the compensation level from which he is appointed, his rate of compensation immediately prior to such appointment; or

(3)at the rate of the highest step of such higher compensation level, or at his rate of compensation immediately prior to such appointment, whichever rate is the higher.

(b)The committee may provide by regulations for the payment of compensation, at an appropriate compensation step determined in accordance with such regulations, to each employee subject to the House Wage Schedule (HWS) who is appointed to a position in a higher compensation level of such schedule or whose position is placed in a higher compensation level of such schedule pursuant to a reclassification of such position.

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Effective Date

Section effective Jan. 1, 1965, see section 17 of Pub. L. 88–652, set out as a note under section 291 of this title.

§297 Appointments and reclassifications to higher compensation levels

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Title 2, §297

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