TITLE 5 - ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL

CHAPTER I - OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT

SUBCHAPTER B - CIVIL SERVICE REGULATIONS

PART 536 - GRADE AND PAY RETENTION

subpart c - PAY RETENTION

536.302 - Optional pay retention.

  (a) Subject to the requirements in 536.102 and this section, an authorized agency official may provide pay retention to an employee not entitled to pay retention under 536.301, but whose payable rate of basic pay otherwise would be reduced (after application of any applicable geographic conversion under 536.303(a)) as the result of a management action. This includes a management action to move an employee's position, without a break in service of more than 3 days, from a Department of Defense or Coast Guard nonappropriated fund instrumentality (as defined in 5 U.S.C. 2105(c)) to a position under a covered pay system in the same agency.

  (b) If an employee's official worksite changes in conjunction with an action that may entitle the employee to pay retention under paragraph (a) of this section, the agency must apply the geographic conversion rule in 536.303(a) before determining whether an employee's rate of basic pay otherwise would be reduced.

  (c) Eligibility for pay retention under this section ceases under the conditions specified in 536.308.