§5347 Federal Prevailing Rate Advisory Committee

Summary

Creates a Federal Prevailing Rate Advisory Committee to study wage-setting for federal prevailing rate employees and to give advice to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). The Committee has a Chairman, who cannot hold any other federal or D.C. government job and is picked by the OPM Director for a 4-year term. The Committee also includes one person from the Secretary of Defense, two people from the military departments, one person from another agency, one OPM employee, and five members from the largest employee organizations that represent prevailing rate workers. The OPM Director must pick the employee-organization members so their numbers are roughly proportional to the workers they represent, but no more than two members can come from one organization and no more than four from a single council or federation. The Director reviews this every 2 years and can remove organization members. The Committee makes decisions by majority vote, with the Chairman voting only to break ties. The Chairman calls meetings and must call one if five members ask in writing. Most members serve without extra pay, the Chairman is a Senior Executive Service position and follows SES rules (including section 5383), and OPM must provide staff the Chairman needs.