39 U.S.C. § 1003 — Employment policy
submitted 56 years ago by Pub. L. 91-375 to r/title-39-POSTAL-SERVICE · 273 words · no verdicts yet
The Postal Service sets pay and benefits for its officers and employees, generally keeping them comparable to similar private-sector work. Separate comparability rules apply to Inspector General personnel and Postal Inspectors, and the Service must give opportunities to disadvantaged and disabled people.
(a) Except where chapters 2 or 12 of this title, section 415 of title 5, or another law provides otherwise, the Postal Service must classify all Postal Service jobs and set the compensation and benefits for all officers and employees. Its policy must be to keep pay and benefits comparable to those for comparable work in the private sector. No officer or employee may be paid more than the rate for level I of the Executive Schedule under section 5312 of title 5.
(b) Pay and benefits for people serving in or under the Postal Service Office of Inspector General must be comparable to pay and benefits for comparable work in the Offices of Inspector General of the establishments listed in section 401(1) of title 5.
(c) Pay and benefits for Postal Inspectors must be comparable to pay and benefits for comparable work in the executive branch outside the Postal Service. In this subsection, “Postal Inspector” includes an agent given investigative powers under section 3061 of title 18; this section does not otherwise define that term.
(d) The Postal Service must use an employment policy that expands opportunity for disadvantaged and disabled people without compromising the policy in section 101(a) of this title.
Except as provided under chapters 2 and 12 of this title, section 415 of title 5, or other provision of law, the Postal Service shall classify and fix the compensation and benefits of all officers and employees in the Postal Service. It shall be the policy of the Postal Service to maintain compensation and benefits for all officers and employees on a standard of comparability to the compensation and benefits paid for comparable levels of work in the private sector of the economy. No officer or employee shall be paid compensation at a rate in excess of the rate for level I of the Executive Schedule under section 5312 of title 5.
Compensation and benefits for all officers and employees serving in or under the Office of Inspector General of the United States Postal Service shall be maintained on a standard of comparability to the compensation and benefits paid for comparable levels of work in the respective Offices of Inspector General of the various establishments named in section 401(1) of title 5.
Compensation and benefits for all Postal Inspectors shall be maintained on a standard of comparability to the compensation and benefits paid for comparable levels of work in the executive branch of the Government outside of the Postal Service. As used in this subsection, the term “Postal Inspector” included 1 any agent to whom any investigative powers are granted under section 3061 of title 18.
The Postal Service shall follow an employment policy designed, without compromising the policy of section 101(a) of this title, to extend opportunity to the disadvantaged and the handicapped.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 91–375, Aug. 12, 1970, 84 Stat. 730; Pub. L. 104–208, div. A, title I, § 101(f) [title VI, § 662(c)(2)], Sept. 30, 1996, 110 Stat. 3009–314, 3009–380; Pub. L. 117–286, § 4(b)(65), Dec. 27, 2022, 136 Stat. 4350.)
- 1970Enacted · Pub. L. 91-375 · 84 Stat. 730
- 1996Amended · Pub. L. 104-208 · 110 Stat. 3009
- 2022Amended · Pub. L. 117-286 · 136 Stat. 4350
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by Pub. L. 91-375 on 1970-08-12.
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