PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 957-AUG. 13, 1946 [60 STAT. shall allocate all positions occupied or to be occupied by staff officers Ante, p. 1003 . or employees to classes and subclasses established by sections 415 and 442, respectively, and by alien employees and consular agents to such classes as may be established by regulation. ADMINISTRATIVE ESTABLISHMENT OF NEW GROUPS OF POSITIONS FOR FOREIGN SFARVICE STAFF OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES ubhlasses. SEC. 442. The Secretary may, whenever he deems such action to be in the interests of good administration and warranted by the nature of the duties and responsibilities of any group of positions occupied or to be occupied by staff officers and employees in comparison with other positions in the same class, establish by regulation for any such group of positions a minimum salary computed at any one of the rates of salary above the minimum for a given class but not in Ant,p. 1003 . excess of the middle rate provided for that class in section 415. Such groups of positions shall, for the purposes of this Act, be known as subclasses. Schedules. Ante, p. 1003. Maximum differ- ential. List of posts. Salary schedules. Equal pay. Saary schedules. ADMINISTRATIVE ESTABLISHMENT OF SALARY DIFFERENTIALS SEC. 443. Whenever the President shall find and declare that the rates of salary provided for Foreign Service staff officers and employees in section 415 are inadequate for any positions allocated to any particular class or subclass, he may, under such regulations as he may prescribe, establish necessary schedules of differentials in the rates of salary prescribed for such classes or subclasses, but the differential in salary of a person holding any such position shall not exceed 25 per centum of the salary he would otherwise receive. Such differentials shall be granted only with respect to positions at posts at which extraordinarily difficult living conditions or excessive physical hardship prevail or at which notably unhealthful conditions exist. The Secretary shall prepare and maintain a list of such posts. CLASSIFICATION OF POSITIONS OF ALIEN CLERKS AND EMPLOYEES SEC. 444 . (a) Upon the basis of the classification provided for in section 441, the Secretary shall, with the advice of the Board of the Foreign Service, from time to time prepare schedules of salaries for classes of positions of alien clerks and employees of the Service, which classes shall be established by regulation, and shall allocate all such positions to the appropriate classes. (b) All alien employees in an area of comparatively uniform wage scales and standards of living, occupying positions of equal respon- sibility, shall receive equal pay except as there may be increases pro- vided for length of service in accordance with uniform procedures. CLASSIFICATION OF CONSULAR AGENTS SEO. 445. Upon the basis of the classification provided for in section 441, the Secretary shall, with the advice of the Board of the Foreign Service, from time to time prepare schedules of salaries for classes of positions of consular agents, which classes shall be established by regulation, and shall allocate all such positions to the appropriate classes. EXEMPTION FROM THE APPLICATION OF THE CLASSIFICATION ACT SEC. 446. Title II of the Act of November 26, 1940, entitled "An Act extending the classified executive Civil Service of the United 1006
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