SUBCHAPTER S8 NAF PAY ADMINISTRATION S8-1 General

1 SUBCHAPTER S8 NAF PAY ADMINISTRATION S8-1 General a. Introduction. Pay schedules for NAF wage employees are established by the head of the designated lead agency in each NAF wage area. This SUBCHAPTER provides the instructions governing the application of rates of basic pay and premium pay to individual NAF employees. b. Agency responsibility. (1) Nothing in this SUBCHAPTER shall be construed as modifying or diminishing the responsibility of each agency head to consult or negotiate, as appropriate, under chapter 71 of title 5, United States Code, with labor organizations holding exclusive recognition for NAF employees in connection with the issuance of new or revised regulations on any matter dealt with in this chapter except those on which uniform policy is expressly prescribed herein.

2 Nothing in this SUBCHAPTER shall be construed as modifying or diminishing the responsibility of each activity head within agency regulations concerning this SUBCHAPTER , and as appropriate under chapter 71 of title 5, United States Code, to enter into collective bargaining agreements with labor organizations holding exclusive recognition, relative to changes in personnel policy or practice concerning any matter dealt with in this SUBCHAPTER except those on which uniform policy is expressly prescribed herein. The responsibility to consult or negotiate with recognized labor organizations refers, for example, to many matters where policy is not prescribed herein with respect to, but not limited to, the following items: S8-2a(15) administrative workweek; S8-2a(16) regularly scheduled administrative workweek; S8-2a(17) basic workweek; S8-2a(22) tour of duty; S8-3c position or appointment change; S8-3e(5) computation of highest previous rate; S8-3k(1) administrative error; lowest rate; and, S8-4b(8) callback overtime work.

3 (2) Agencies are responsible for defining the period of 7 consecutive calendar days which constitute an employee s administrative workweek. The agencies are also responsible for determining an employee s basic workweek, , the days and hours within the administrative workweek which make up the employee s regularly scheduled workweek. S8-2 Definitions In this SUBCHAPTER : (1) Agency means the Department of Defense, the Department of Transportation, and the Department of Veterans Affairs. (2) Scheduled rate of pay means the rate of pay fixed by law or administrative action, including a retained rate of pay and a rate on temporary promotion for the job held by an NAF employee before any deductions and exclusive of additional pay of any kind.

4 (3) Employee, unless otherwise modified, means an employee of a branch of the Federal Government (executive, legislative, or judicial), the Government of the District of Columbia, a mixed-ownership corporation, and an NAF prevailing rate employee; but does not include a nonwage NAF employee of the Department of Defense or the Department of Transportation. (4) Rate of basic pay means scheduled rate of pay plus any night shift or environmental differential. (5) Existing scheduled rate of pay means the scheduled rate of pay received immediately before the effective date of a transfer, reassignment, promotion, change to lower grade , within- grade increase, or revision of a wage schedule .

5 (6) Highest previous rate means the highest scheduled rate of pay previously paid to an employee while employed in a job in a branch of the Federal Government (executive, legislative, or judicial), a mixed-ownership corporation ( , the Tennessee Valley Authority), or the government of the District of Columbia, regardless of whether the job was subject to a wage systems schedule . (7) Representative rate means a rate used to determine the nature of the job change ( , promotion, change to a lower grade , or reassignment) when different kinds of pay schedules are involved, whether in the same or different wage areas. A representative rate is the going rate ( , the rate or step keyed to the prevailing rate determination for example, the established rate on a single-rate schedule , the second rate on a 5-rate regular wage schedule , the fourth rate on the General schedule , or a class under the Foreign Service Officer and Foreign Services staff schedules) of the jobs or grades between which the employee is being changed.

6 If the change is between different wage areas all determinations concerning representative rates are based on the scheduled rates for the jobs or grades involved which are in effect on the date of the change in the local wage area to which the employee is being changed. (8) Promotion means a change of an employee, while continuously employed, from: One grade to a higher grade under the same type of wage schedule , for example, from a grade 9 under the nonsupervisory wage schedule to grade 10 under the nonsupervisory wage schedule , whether in the same or different wage areas; A job or grade under a wage schedule to a job or grade with a higher representative rate under a different wage schedule ; A job or grade paid under the General schedule or other pay system other than the Federal Wage System to a job or grade with higher representative rate under a wage schedule .

7 (9) Change to lower grade means a change of an employee, while continuously employed, from: One grade to a lower grade under the same type wage schedule , whether in the same or different wage areas; A job or grade under a wage schedule to a job or grade with a lower representative rate under a different wage schedule ; A job or grade paid under the General schedule or other pay system other than the Federal Wage System to a job or grade with a lower representative rate under a wage schedule . (10) Reassignment means a change of an employee while serving continuously in the same agency from one job to another without promotion or change to lower grade .

8 (11) Reemployment means an employment, including reinstatement or another type of appointment, after a break in service of at least 1 full workday. (12) Transfer means a change of an employee without a break in service of 1 full workday, from the government of the District of Columbia to the Federal Government, or from one branch of the Federal Government (executive, legislative, or judicial) to another or from one agency to another. (13) New appointment means the first appointment, regardless of tenure, as an employee of the Federal Government. (14) Premium pay means additional compensation for overtime, standby duty, and work performed on a holiday or Sunday.

9 (15) Administrative workweek means a period of 7 consecutive calendar days. Usually an administrative workweek coincides with a calendar week. (16) Regularly scheduled administrative workweek For full-time employees means the period within an administrative workweek within which employees are scheduled to be on duty regularly. For part-time employees means the days and hours within an administrative workweek during which these employees are scheduled to be on duty regularly. (17) Basic workweek for full-time employees means the days and hours within an administrative workweek which makes up the employees regularly scheduled workweek.

10 (18) Sunday work is work performed during a regularly scheduled tour of duty within a basic 40-hour workweek when any part of that work which is not overtime work is performed on Sunday. (19) Overtime work means authorized and approved hours of work performed in excess of 8 hours in a day or in excess of 40 hours in an administrative workweek, whichever is the greatest number of overtime hours, and includes irregular or occasional overtime work and regular overtime work (except as provided in SUBCHAPTER II of chapter 61 of title 5, United States Code, regarding flexible and compressed work schedules). (20) Regular overtime work means overtime work which is scheduled as a part of the regularly scheduled administrative workweek.