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B-206397 1 (1982-07-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadkne0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ?4 Am*Hu COMPTROLLER 1lRANINI1A4 CftCIB% N OF TH E LJNI'rBC lTATEUM ASHINOTOND0 N , 90543 PILEI B-206397 DATE; July 23, 1982 IIATTER OF: National Federation of Federal Employees Prevailing rate employees pay adjustment limitation It! S!S The National Federation of Federal Employ- ees contends that the Office of Personnel Management (OPH) was incorrect in requiring the rounding down of all fractions of a cent under the pay adjustment limitation In the Omnibus Budget Reconcilation Act of 1981, Pub. L9 No. 97-35, August 13, 1901, § 1701(b), 95 Stat. 357,754. OPM asserts that roundIng down is required under that provisiol. We believe that the language in that provision mandating that any adjustment to any prevailing rate employee wage schedule or rate not exceed the amount which is 4.8 percent above the schedule or rate payable on September 30, 1981, requires the rounding down of fractions of a cent when to do otherwise would result in an adjustment to a prevailing rate employee wage schedule or rate cxceeding this statu- tory pay adjustment limitation. Mr. James M. Peirce, President of the National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE), has requested a decision from our Office under cur Procedures For Decisions On Appropriated Fund Expenditures Which Are Of Mutual Concern To Agencies And Labor Organizations, 4 C.F.R. Part 22 (1981). He has asked: Are the Federal prevailing rate employees, whose tabulated rates of pay were rounded down rather than rounded to the nearest cent, entitled to have their pay rates ad- justed to the nearest cent with back pay to the date their FY '82 pay rates became effective? r, , A * J

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