2 U.S.C. § 294 — Position standards and descriptions

(a) (1) The committee must set, update, and keep current position standards. These apply to jobs under the House of Representatives covered by this chapter, whether they existed on January 1, 1965 or were created later. (2) The standards must (A) sort positions into pay and personnel classes based on how similar their type, required qualifications, and level of difficulty and responsibility are, and (B) decide which pay level within the pay schedule each position gets. (b) (1) The Clerk, the Sergeant at Arms, the Chief Administrative Officer, and the Inspector General must each write, update, and keep current, in the form and timing the committee sets, job descriptions for the positions under their own authority, subject to the committee's review and approval. This includes (A) for the Clerk, positions in the House Recording Studio, (B) for the Sergeant at Arms, the minority pair clerk position, and (C) for the Chief Administrative Officer, positions in the House Radio and Television Correspondents' Gallery and the House Periodical Press Gallery. (2) The job descriptions must (A) describe in detail the actual duties, responsibilities, and required qualifications of the job, (B) give the position a title that accurately reflects those duties, and (C) decide which class the position belongs in. (c) These four officers must send the committee, in the form and timing it sets, all the job descriptions they are required to prepare under (b), along with any other relevant information the committee wants, so the committee always has current information on job descriptions, the positions they cover, and related personnel matters. This information is kept on file with the committee. (d) The committee can, at any time and at its own discretion: (1) survey and study any covered organization and its positions; (2) find out current facts about the duties, responsibilities, and required qualifications of any covered position; (3) write or revise the job description of any covered position; (4) place any covered position in its proper class and pay level; (5) decide whether a position is in the right class and pay level; (6) move a position from one class or pay level to another whenever the facts call for it; and (7) set organization and job titles as needed to carry out this chapter. All of these committee decisions bind the House officer and organization involved, and they control how compensation and other personnel matters are handled until the committee changes them again.