104 STAT. 1430
PUBLIC LAW 101-509—NOV. 5, 1990
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non-Federal workers for the same levels of work in the same
locality;
"(7) the term 'comparability payment' means a payment pay-
able under section 5304;
"(8) the term 'rates of pay under the General Schedule', 'rates
of pay for the General Schedule', or 'scheduled rates of basic
pay' means—
"(A) the rates of basic pay set forth in the General
Schedule; and
"(B) in the case of an employee covered by the perform-
Eince management and recognition system, the rates of
basic pay under chapter 54; and
"(9) the term 'General Schedule position' means any position
to which subchapter III applies (including any position under
the performance management and recognition system).
"§ 5303. Annual adjustments to pay schedules
"(a) Effective as of the first day of the first applicable pay period
beginning on or after January 1 of each calendar year, the rates of
basic pay for each statutory pay system shall be incresised by the
percentage (rounded to the nearest one-tenth of 1 percent) equal to
one-half of 1 percentage point less than the percentage by which the
ECI for the base quarter of the year before the preceding calendar
year exceeds the ECI for the base quarter of the second year before
the preceding calendar year (if at all).
"(b)(1) If, because of national emergency or serious economic
conditions affecting the general welfare, the President should consider the pay adjustment which would otherwise be required by
subsection (a) in any year to be inappropriate, the President shall—
"(A) prepare and transmit to Congress before September 1 of
the preceding calendar year a plan for such alternative pay
adjustments as he considers appropriate, together with the
reasons therefor; and
"(B) adjust the rates of pay of each statutory pay system, in
accordance with such plan, effective on the same day as the
increase under subsection (a) would otherwise take effect.
"(2) In evsduating an economic condition affecting the general
welfare under this subsection, the President shall consider pertinent
economic measures including, but not limited to, the Indexes of
Leading Economic Indicators, the Gross National Product, the unemployment rate, the budget deficit, the Consumer Price Index, the
Producer Price Index, the Employment Cost Index, and the Implicit
Price Deflator for Personal Consumption Expenditures.
"(3) The President shall include in the report to Congress under
paragraph (I)(A) his assessment of the impact that the alternative
pay adjustments under this subsection will have on the Government's ability to recruit and retain well-qualified employees.
"(c) The rates of basic pay that take effect under this section—
"(1) shall modify, supersede, or render inapplicable, as the
case may be, to the extent inconsistent therewith, any prior
rates of basic pay under the statutory pay system involved (as
last adjusted under this section or prior provisions of law); and
"(2) shall be printed in the Federal Register and the Code of
Federal Regulations.
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