Volume 72 · 1696
Public Law 85–872
Relating to effective dates of increases in compensation granted to wage board employees.
Approved September 2, 1958
Statutory text
AN ACT
Relating to effective dates of increases in compensation granted to wage board employees.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That each increase in rates of basic compensation granted, pursuant to a wage survey, to employees of the Federal Government or of the municipal government of the District of Columbia whose compensation is fixed and adjusted from time to time as nearly as is consistent with the public interest in accordance with prevailing rates under authority of section 202 (7) of
the Classification Act of 1949 (5 U. S. C. 1082 (7)) or section 7474 of
title 10 of the United States Code shall become effective, as follows:
if the wage survey is conducted by a department or agency (either alone or with one or more other departments or agencies) with respect to its own employees, such increase shall become effective for such employees not later than the first day of the first pay period which begins on or after the forty-fifth day, excluding Saturdays and Sundays, following the date on which such wage survey was ordered to be made; and
if the wage survey is conducted by a department or agency (either alone or with one or more other departments or agencies) and is utilized by any department or agency which did not conduct such wage survey, such increase shall become effective, for the employees of the department or agency utilizing such wage survey, not later than the first day of the first pay period which begins on or after the twentieth day, excluding Saturdays and Sundays, following the date on which the department or agency utilizing such wage survey receives the data collected in such wage survey and necessary for the granting of such increase.
Sec. 2
Retroactive compensation shall be paid, by reason of
Retroactive compensation.
any increase in rates of basic compensation referred to in the first section of this Act, only in the case of an individual in the service of the United States (including service in the Armed Forces of the United States) or the municipal government of the District of Columbia on the date of issuance of the order granting such increase, except that such retroactive compensation shall be payable—
to an employee who retired during the period beginning on the effective date of the increase in rates of basic compensation and ending on the date of issuance of the order granting such increase, for services rendered during such period, and
in accordance with the provisions of the Act of August 3, 1950 (Public Law 636, Eighty-first Congress), as amended
(5 U. S. C. 61f–61k), for services rendered during the period described in paragraph (1) of this subsection, by an employee who dies during such period.
Such retroactive compensation shall not lie considered as basic
salary for the purposes of the Civil Service Retirement Act in the case of any such retired or deceased employee.
For the purposes of this section, service in the Armed Forces of the United States, in the case of an individual relieved from training and service in the Armed Forces of the United States or discharged from hospitalization following such training and service, shall include the period provided by law for the mandatory restoration of such individual to a position in or under the Federal Government or the municipal government of the District of Columbia.
Sec. 3.
For the purpose of determining the amount of insurance
Life insurance.
for which an individual is eligible under the Federal Employees’ Group Life Insurance Act of 1954 (5 U. S. C. 2091–2103), each
increase in rates of basic compensation referred to in the first section of this Act shall be held and considered to be effective as of the date of issuance of the order granting such increase or as of the effective date of such increase if such effective date occurs later.
Sec. 4.
The foregoing sections of this Act shall not apply to any
Exceptions.
increase in rates of basic compensation granted pursuant to any wage survey described in paragraph (1) or paragraph (2) of the first section of this Act and which was ordered, prior to September 1, 1958, to be made.
Approved September 2, 1958.