Title 1, Government Organization.

(a) A person appointed to a position in the Executive Service shall be appointed at the level on the DX Schedule or DX Public Safety Schedule designated for the subordinate agency to which he or she is appointed, and shall receive a salary set at any amount within the salary rang…

A person holding an appointment to a position in the Executive Service on October 21, 1998 shall continue to be paid at his or her existing rate of pay until the Mayor effects a personnel action establishing a new salary within the designated range for the level of the position t…

Pursuant to regulations the Mayor may prescribe, the following expenses may be paid in connection with Executive Service employment: (1) Reasonable pre-employment travel expenses for an individual being interviewed for a subordinate agency head position; (2) Reasonable relocation…

The Mayor may authorize performance incentives for exceptional service for subordinate agency heads not to exceed 10% of the rate of basic pay in any year. Exceptional service incentives may be paid only if: (1) The agency head is bound by a performance contract, available to the…

(a) A subordinate agency head may be paid separation pay of up to 12 weeks of his or her basic pay upon separation from the government at the discretion of the Mayor; provided that, the agency head has been a District government employee for at least one year prior to the separat…

(a) The provisions of § 1-609.06(a) through (h) shall apply to employment in the Executive Service. (b) Repealed. (c) Repealed.

No person holding a position in the Executive Service may be appointed to a position in the Career, Educational, or Management Supervisory Service for at least one year immediately following his or her separation from the Executive Service, except that, upon termination, a person…

The Executive Service employees’ leave system shall provide the following: (1) No employee shall earn annual or sick leave. (2) Each employee shall have a universal leave account. (3) Each employee’s universal leave account shall be credited with 208 hours on the first pay period…

Executive Service employees shall be covered under subchapter XXVI of this chapter, except that employees first hired after September 30, 1987, may elect to participate in the District’s defined contribution plan or may elect to have the funds that would otherwise be contributed …

Executive Service employees shall be covered by the provisions of subchapter XXII of this chapter, except that any Executive Service employee, whether covered by federal life insurance benefits (pursuant to § 1-622.01) or District life insurance benefits (pursuant to § 1-622.03),…

(a) The Mayor shall not enter into an employment contract with a subordinate agency head that contains terms and conditions of employment that are inconsistent with existing law. (b) If the Mayor executes an employment contract with a subordinate agency head in the Executive Serv…

For the purposes of this part, the term “lateral law enforcement officer” means: (1)(A) A member of the Capitol Police; (B) A member of the United States Park Police; (C) A member of the Federal Protective Service; (D) A member of the United States Secret Service Uniformed Divisi…

Notwithstanding any other law or regulation, the Mayor, or the Mayor’s designee, may appoint a lateral law enforcement officer to the Metropolitan Police Department without regard to any time in grade or prior department service or incumbency requirements. A lateral law enforceme…

Except as provided in § 1-610.74 a lateral law enforcement officer hired pursuant to § 1-610.72 shall be covered by the provisions of this chapter applicable to members of the Metropolitan Police Department hired after September 30, 1987.

For the purposes of § 1-612.03, years of law enforcement experience, as determined by the Mayor or his or her designee, shall constitute years of District government service for any employee hired as a lateral law enforcement officer pursuant to § 1-610.72.

(a) For the purposes of retirement benefits, an employee hired as a lateral law enforcement officer pursuant to § 1-610.72 shall elect to be covered by § 1-901.01 et seq. These lateral law enforcement officers shall be treated as new hires for retirement purposes except as provid…

In computing length of service of a retiring lateral law enforcement officer hired pursuant to § 1-610.72, credit shall be granted for prior law enforcement service outside the Metropolitan Police Department only if the lateral law enforcement officer has deposited to the credit …

(a) The classification of all positions in the Career, Educational, Legal, Excepted, and the Management Supervisory Services will be accomplished in accordance with the following policy: (1) Individual positions will be grouped and identified by classes and grades, in accordance …

(a) In order to carry out the policies of § 1-611.01, the Mayor shall provide for the development of a classification system covering all positions in the Career, Legal, Excepted, and the Management Supervisory Services. (b) The Mayor shall provide that all positions covered by t…

(a) Compensation for all employees in the Career, Educational, Legal, Excepted, and the Management Supervisory Services shall be fixed in accordance with the following policy: (1) Compensation shall be competitive with that provided to other public sector employees having compara…

(a) The Mayor shall develop, in consultation with the Board of Education and the Board of Trustees of the University of the District of Columbia, a new compensation system for all employees in the Career, Legal, Excepted, and Management Supervisory Services. Any comments that the…

(a) The Mayor, in consultation with the Board of Education and the Board of Trustees of the University of the District of Columbia, shall provide for a periodic review of the basic compensation system, in order to improve the system and provide continuing conformity with the poli…

(a) If the Council by resolution approves, without revision, the new compensation system or systems, or any later changes in such system or systems or in the salary or pay schedules under the system or systems proposed in accordance with § 1-611.04 or § 1-611.05, the schedules sh…

(a) Each member of any board or commission who receives compensation or reimbursement of expenses on January 1, 1980, shall receive such rates of compensation or reimbursement of expenses as are provided in existing law, rule, regulation, or order, or in this chapter, except as m…

(a) Repealed. (a-1) In accordance with § 1-204.21(d), effective January 2, 2007, the Mayor shall receive annual compensation in the amount of $200,000, which shall be payable in equal and periodic installments. The compensation shall not be subject to step, cost of living, or oth…

Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, each member of the District of Columbia Board of Education shall receive a salary of not more than $15,000 annually; except the President of the Board of Education shall receive not more than $16,000 annually. These sums shall not incr…

(a) The classification of all positions in the Educational Service shall be in accordance with the policies of § 1-611.01. (a-1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, rule, or regulation: (1) Except for the Chancellor and any Excepted Service employees appointed pursuant to…

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this subchapter, members of the Public Employee Relations Board shall receive compensation at the rate of $250 per day, or $31.25 per hour, whichever is less, while in the service of the said Board. Should a member serve in excess of 8 h…

(a)(1) The Mayor of the District of Columbia shall ascertain the average percentage increase to be used by the President of the United States in adjusting rates of pay (to be effective October 1, 1978, and October 1, 1979, respectively) under § 5305(a)(2) of Title 5 of the United…

(a) For the period beginning October 1, 1980, and ending on the last day of the pay period that contains September 30, 1981, the basic pay for an employee in the Career or Excepted Service shall not exceed $50,112.50 per annum. (b) For the period beginning October 1, 1980, and en…

An individual officer or employee of the District of Columbia government entitled to compensation under this subchapter may decline to accept all or any part of such compensation by a waiver signed and filed with the Director of Personnel. The waiver may be revoked in writing at …

(a) Notwithstanding the provisions of § 2-1605 or § 23-1306, or any other provision or law, no employee of the District of Columbia government shall be authorized to receive pay in excess of that provided for in this subchapter, and any such provision of law that is inconsistent …

There is established an employee deferred compensation program as provided in the Deferred Compensation Act of 1984.

(a)(1) The Mayor may establish certain tax-favored and pre-tax benefits programs as are allowed by the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 (26 U.S.C. § 1 et seq.) and the regulations and interpretations thereunder, including sections 120, 125, 127, 129, and 132 of the Internal Revenue …

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the only method for the receipt of salary, wages, or any other compensation, and retirement payments by any District of Columbia employee or retiree, whether compensated by the District with District funds or federal funds, shall co…

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this subchapter, or any other provision of law or regulation, and consistent with § 1-204.22, the Mayor may implement pilot personnel programs in the areas of classification and compensation in the Department of Employment Services, the …

The Mayor and Council Compensation Advisory Commission (“Commission”) is established to determine the proper compensation of elected officials in the District of Columbia.

(a) The Commission shall consist of 5 voting members and one nonvoting member as follows: (1) Two members appointed by the Mayor with the advice and consent of the Council; (2) Three members appointed by the Council by resolution; and (3) The Director of the Office of Personnel, …

The Commission shall: (1) Conduct an annual review examining the best practices in compensation and benefits for mayors and members of the Council and other elected officials in the surrounding Washington Metropolitan Area, as well as in comparable jurisdictions in the country; (…

(a) On February 1 of each odd numbered year, the Commission shall submit to the Council, the Mayor, and each Councilmember a draft act, together with a report explaining its recommendations regarding compensation for the Mayor, the Chairman, and individual Councilmembers; provide…

(a) The Commission shall meet as frequently as the proper and efficient discharge of its duties may require. A majority of the voting members shall constitute a quorum. The Commission may act by an affirmative vote of a majority of its voting members. (b) Other than executive ses…

(a) All offices, agencies, and instrumentalities of the District government shall fully cooperate with the Commission and provide requested information and documents. (b) Subject to the availability of appropriations, the Commission may hire or contract for necessary staff and te…

Upon receiving the draft act and report from the Commission as required by § 1-611.54, the Chairman shall introduce the proposed legislation at the next legislative session. The Council shall hold a public hearing on the legislation within 6 months of its introduction.

(a) A basic administrative workweek of 40 hours is established for each full-time employee and the hours of work within that workweek shall be performed within a period of not more than 6 of any 7 consecutive days; except, that: (1) The basic workweek for uniformed members of the…

(a) Legal public holidays are as follows: (1) New Year’s Day, January 1st of each year; (2) Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Birthday, the 3rd Monday in January of each year; (3) Washington’s Birthday, the 3rd Monday in February of each year; (4) Memorial Day, the last Monday in May…

A legal private holiday is a day on which any paid family, vacation, personal, compensatory, leave bank or unpaid leave that has been provided by the employer may be granted pursuant to subchapter XII of this chapter and Chapter 12 of Title 32 and includes the District of Columbi…