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1 of the United States under the jurisdiction of the armed 2 forces conducted for the comfort, pleasure, contentment, and 3 mental and physical improvement of personnel of the armed 4 forces

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"(1) whose regular work schedule includes an 8hour period of service, a part of which is on Sunday, is entitled to additional pay at the rate of 25 percent of

his hourly rate of basic pay for each hour of work per

formed during that 8-hour period of service; or

"(2) who performs work on a holiday designated

by Federal statute or Executive order, is entitled to pay at the rate of his basic pay, plus premium pay at a rate

equal to the rate of his basic pay, for that holiday work

which is not in excess of 8 hours or overtime work for such employee.".

(b) The table of sections of subchapter V of chapter 55 of title 5, United States Code, is amended by adding at the 18 end thereof

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"8 5550. Pay for Sunday and holiday work; employees of nonappropriated fund instrumentalities, Veterans' Canteen Service.”.

SEC. 11. The provisions of sections 1-10 of this Act 20 are effective on the first day of the first pay period which 21 begins on or after ninety days after the date of enactment of 22 this Act except that, in the case of those employees referred 23 to in section 5342 (a) (2) (C) and (D) of title 5, United

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1 States Code (as amended by the first section of this Act), 2 such provisions are effective on the first day of the first 3 pay period which begins on or after one hundred and 4 eighty days after such date of enactment or on such earlier 5 date (not earlier than ninety days after such date of enact6 ment) as the Civil Service Commission may prescribe.

92D CONGRESS 1ST SESSION

S. 1288

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

MARCH 19, 1971

Mr. STEVENS (for himself and Mr. GRAVEL) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service

A BILL

To provide an equitable system for fixing and adjusting the rates of pay for prevailing rate employees of the Government, and for other purposes.

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 3 That (a) subchapter IV of chapter 53 of title 5, United 4 States Code, is amended to read as follows:

5 "SUBCHAPTER IX-PREVAILING RATE SYSTEMS 6 "§ 5341. Policy

7 "It is the policy of Congress that rates of pay of prevail8 ing rate employees be uniformly fixed and adjusted and be 9 based on principles that—

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"(1) there will be equal pay for substantially equal

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work for all employees who are working under similar

conditions of employment in all agencies within the

same wage area;

"(2) there will be relative differences in pay within

a wage area when there are substantial or recognizable differences in duties, responsibilities, and qualification requirements among positions;

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(3) the level of rates of pay will be maintained

in line with prevailing levels of comparable work within

a wage area;

"(4) the level of rates of pay will be maintained so as to attract and retain qualified employees; and

"(5) Federal agencies and instrumentalities entering into contracts with private enterprises for the procurement of goods and services will incorporate the requirement that the private enterprise shall furnish to the Federal authorities all data on rates of private pay

requested to accomplish the purposes of this Act.

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"(a) For the purpose of this subchapter

"(1) ‘agency' has the meaning given it by section

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mechanical craft, or in an unskilled, semiskilled, or

skilled manual labor occuaption, and any other inskilled manual labor occupation, and any other in

a position having trade, craft, or laboring experience or knowledge as the paramount requirement;

"(B) an employee in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing whose duties are to perform or direct manual or machine operations requiring

special skill or experience, or to perform or direct the counting, examining, sorting, or other verification of the product or manual or machine operations; "(C) an employee of a nonappropriated fund instrumentality described by section 2105 (c) of this title who is employed in a recognized trade or craft, or other skilled mechanical craft, or in an unskilled, semiskilled, or skilled manual labor occupation, and an other individual, including a foreman and a supervisor, in a position having trade, craft, or laboring experience and knowledge as the paramount requirement; and

"(D) an employee of the Veterans' Canteen Service, Veterans' Administration, excepted from chapter 51 of this title by section 5102 (c) (14) of this title who is employed in a recognized trade or

craft, or other skilled mechanical craft, or in an

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