Title 5, Part 532 — Prevailing Rate Systems

Scope.

Coverage.

Pay-fixing authority.

Definitions.

Structure of regular wage schedules.

The use of Federal, State, and local minimum wage requirements in determining prevailing rates.

Time schedule for wage surveys.

Lead agency.

Criteria for appropriated fund wage areas.

Industries included in regular appropriated fund wage surveys.

Establishments included in regular appropriated fund surveys.

Appropriated fund survey jobs.

Criteria for establishing nonappropriated fund wage areas.

Industries included in regular nonappropriated fund surveys.

Establishments included in regular nonappropriated fund surveys.

Nonappropriated fund survey jobs.

Agency wage committee.

Local wage survey committee.

Responsibilities of participating organizations.

Preparation for full-scale wage surveys.

Conduct of full-scale wage survey.

Review by the local wage survey committee.

Review by the lead agency.

Analysis of usable wage survey data.

Consultation with the agency wage committee.

Selection of payline and issuance of wage schedules.

Wage change surveys.

Minimum rates for hard-to-fill positions.

Special rates.

Special rates or rate ranges for leader, supervisory, and production facilitating positions.

Special schedules.

Regular appropriated fund wage schedules in foreign areas.

Regular nonappropriated fund wage schedules in foreign areas.

Special appropriated fund wage schedules for U.S. insular areas.

Special wage schedules for leader and supervisory schedules for leader and supervisory wage employees in the Puerto Rico wage area.

Special wage schedules for production facilitating positions.

Special wage schedules for apprentices and shop trainees.

Special wage schedules for aircraft, electronic, and optical instrument overhaul and repair positions in Puerto Rico.

Special wage schedules for Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army navigation lock and dam employees.

Special wage schedules for National Park Service positions in overlap areas.

Special wage schedules for United States Information Agency Radio Antenna Rigger positions.

Special wage schedules for U.S. Navy positions in Bridgeport, California.

Special wage schedules for divers and tenders.

Special wage schedules for nonappropriated fund tipped employees classified as waiter/waitress.

Special wage schedules for supervisors of negotiated rate Bureau of Reclamation employees.

Special wage schedules for nonappropriated fund automotive mechanics.

Special wage schedules for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers flood control employees of the Vicksburg District in Mississippi.

Definitions.

Specialized industry.

Dominant industry.

Determinating whether a dominant industry exists in a wage area.

Determining adequacy of specialized private industry.

Survey of specialized private industry related to a dominant industry.

Private sector industries.

Additional survey jobs.

Use of data from the nearest similar area.

Definitions.

New appointments.

Use of highest previous rate.

Promotion.

Grading or regrading of positions.

Details.

Simultaneous action.

Application of new or revised wage schedules.

Within-grade increases.

Grade and pay retention.

Definitions.

Overtime pay.

Compensatory time off.

Night shift differentials.

Pay for holiday work.

Pay for Sunday work.

Environmental differentials.

Flexible and compressed work schedules.

General.

General.

Agency review.

Appeal to the Office of Personnel Management.

Availability of information.

Payment of unrestricted rates for recruitment or retention purposes.