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B-173783.169 1 (1976-08-05)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaduhr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ~THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL 2t DECISION * OF THE UNITED STATES #' . WA SH IN GT ON , 0. C . 20 54 8 FILE: 4-173783.169 DATE: AUG 51975 MATTER OF: U.S. Information Agency - Effective date of special wage schedule adjustments DIGEST: Special wage schedule employees of U.S. Information Agency receive wage adjustments based upon regular wage schedule for San Francisco area prevailing rate employees. The effective date is of ten several weeks after the effective date of an adjustment in the regular schedule. Special schedule employees are not within scope of 5 U.S.C. 5344 and agency may continue its current pay practice since special rate could be determined on basis other than wage surveys, By letter of August 22, 1975, Mr. Clyde H. Webber (now deceased), National President, American Federation of Goverment Employees (AFGE), reference 14/WS, has requested our opinion as to the effective date for implementation of special wage schedules under the Federal Wage System. Mr. Webber cites as a representative case the Radio Antenna Rigers employed by the U.S. Information Agency in the San Francisco area. The special wage schedule for these employees is computed on the basis of the regular wage schedule of the San Francisco Federal Wage System. The 1974 adjustment for the regular wage schedule was effective November 18, 1974. However, the U.S. Information Agency did not implement a special wage schedule for its Radio Antenna Riggers until January 5, 1975. Mr. Webbwc argues ttat Public Law 92-392, approved August 19, 1972, 5 U.S.C. 534let aeq., requires a fulL-scale wage survey at least every 2 years with interim surveys between the full-scale surveys. He contends that this cycle of annual surveys and resulting adjustments applies to both regular and special wage schedules and that there is no provision for allowing a cycle to extend beyond 1 year. AFGE raised this question previously with the Civil Service Conission and was advised by the Commission on May 29, 1975, that the delay-in the 1974 adjustment apparently involved untimely receipt of the San Francisco area schedule upon which the computations are made for the Radio Antenna Riggers' special schedule. On the question of whether these employees are entitled to retroactive pay when the effective date of a new schedule is delayed, the Civil Service Commission cited a mlw

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