2 U.S.C. § 296 — Step increases; waiting periods; service in Armed Forces; automatic advancement

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House employees move up pay steps automatically after set waiting periods of good service. A raise received during a waiting period restarts the clock for the next step. Military service doesn't cost employees their step-increase progress.

(a) Every employee on the House Employees Schedule (HS) who hasn't reached the top step of their compensation level moves up to the next step after a waiting period, as long as no break in service lasts more than thirty months: (1) steps 2, 3, and 4 each follow one year of satisfactory service in the step before them; (2) steps 5, 6, and 7 each follow two years of satisfactory service in the step before them; (3) steps 8, 9, and 10 each follow three years of satisfactory service in the step before them; and (4) steps 11 and 12 each follow five years of satisfactory service in the step before them. Each step increase takes effect at the start of the first pay period after the waiting period is completed. (b) If an employee gets a pay increase during one of these waiting periods, a brand-new full waiting period starts for the next step increase. (c) A pay increase that comes from a new law, or from the committee raising the House Employees Schedule's rates generally, does not count as an "increase in compensation" for purposes of restarting the waiting period under (b). (d) If an employee's continuous service is interrupted by service in the U.S. Armed Forces, the committee must write regulations to preserve that employee's benefit of earned successive step increases. (e) The committee must establish, and may update, a similar system of automatic step increases for employees on the House Wage Schedule (HWS), based on satisfactory service performed without a break of more than thirty months. In running this system, the committee may write regulations providing that: (1) a pay increase during a waiting period restarts the full waiting period for the next step increase; (2) a pay increase from a new law, or from the committee raising the Wage Schedule's rates generally, does not count as an increase in compensation for restarting that waiting period; and (3) employees whose continuous service is interrupted by Armed Forces service keep the benefit of their earned step increases, under regulations the committee sets.

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(a)

Each employee in a compensation level of the House Employees Schedule (HS), who has not attained the highest scheduled rate of compensation for the compensation level (HS level) in which his position is placed, shall be advanced successively to the next higher step of such HS level, as follows:

(1)

to steps 2, 3, and 4, respectively—at the beginning of the first pay period following the completion, without break in service of more than thirty months, of one year of satisfactory service in the next lower step;

(2)

to steps 5, 6, and 7, respectively—at the beginning of the first pay period following the completion, without break in service of more than thirty months, of two years of satisfactory service in the next lower step;

(3)

to steps 8, 9, and 10, respectively—at the beginning of the first pay period following the completion, without break in service of more than thirty months, of three years of satisfactory service in the next lower step; and

(4)

to steps 11 and 12, respectively—at the beginning of the first pay period following the completion, without break in service of more than thirty months, of five years of satisfactory service in the next lower step.

(b)

The receipt of an increase in compensation during any of the waiting periods of service specified in subsection (a) of this section shall cause a new full waiting period of service to commence for further step increases under such subsection.

(c)

Any increase in compensation granted by law, or granted by reason of an increase made by the committee in the rates of compensation of the House Employees Schedule, to employees within the purview of subsection (a) of this section shall not be held or considered to be an increase in compensation for the purposes of subsection (b) of this section.

(d)

The benefit of successive step increases under subsection (a) of this section shall be preserved, under regulations prescribed by the committee, for employees whose continuous service is interrupted by service in the Armed Forces of the United States.

(e)

The committee shall establish and maintain, and, from time to time, may revise, a system of automatic advancement, by successive step increases in compensation, on the basis of satisfactory service performed, without break in service of more than thirty months, for employees subject to the House Wage Schedule (HWS). In the operation of such system of step increases the committee may prescribe regulations to the effect that—

(1)

the receipt of an increase in compensation during any of the waiting periods of service required for advancement by step increases under such system shall cause a new full waiting period of service to commence for further step increases under such system;

(2)

any increase in compensation granted by law, or granted by reason of an increase made by the committee in the rates of compensation of the House Wage Schedule, to employees within the purview of such system of step increases shall not be held or considered to be an increase in compensation for the purposes of subparagraph (1) of this subsection; and

(3)

the benefit of successive step increases under such system of step increases shall be preserved, under regulations prescribed by the committee, for employees whose continuous service is interrupted by service in the Armed Forces of the United States.

Source credit: (Pub. L. 88–652, § 7, Oct. 13, 1964, 78 Stat. 1081.)

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1964Enacted · Pub. L. 88-652 · 78 Stat. 1081

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