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PUBLIC LAW 91-375-AUG. 12, 1970
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officer or employee shall be paid compensation at a rate in excess of the rate for level I of the Executive Schedule under section 5312 of title 5. ssltTseT' "(b) The Postal Service shall follow an employment policy designed, without compromising the policy of section 101(a) of this title, to extend opportunity to the disadvantaged and the handicapped. "§ 1004. Supervisory and other managerial organizations " (a) I t shall be the policy of the Postal Service to provide compensation, working conditions, and career opportunities that will assure the attraction and retention of qualified and capable supervisory and other managerial personnel; to provide adequate and reasonable differentials in rates of pay between employees in the clerk and carrier grades in the line work force and supervisory and other managerial personnel; to establish and maintain continuously a program for all such personnel that reflects the essential importance of a well-trained and well-motivated force to improve the effectiveness of postal operations; and to promote the leadership status of such personnel with respect to rank-and-file employees, recognizing that the role of such personnel in primary level management is particularly vital to the process of converting general postal policies into successful postal operations. "(b) The Postal Service shall provide a program for consultation with recognized organizations of supervisory and other managerial personnel who are not subject to collective-bargaining agreements under chapter 12 of this title. Upon presentation of evidence satis- Post, p. 733. factory to the Postal Service that a supervisory organization represents a majority of supervisors, or that a managerial organization (other than an organization representing supervisors) represents a substantial percentage of managerial employees, such organization or organizations shall be entitled to participate directly in the planning and development of pay policies and schedules, fringe benefit programs, and other programs relating to supervisory and other managerial employees. "§ 1005. Applicability of laws relating to Federal employees " (a)(1) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, the provisions of chapter 75 of title 5 shall apply to officers and employees s^us^c'ys^oi of the Postal Service except to the extent of any inconsistency with— " (A) the provisions of any collective-bargaining agreement negotiated on behalf of and applicable to them; or " (B) procedures established by the Postal Service and approved by the Civil Service Commission. "(2) The provisions of title 5 relating to a preference eligible (as that term is defined under section 2108(3) of such title) shall apply to gi^stat^^ige^"' fin applicant for appointment and any officer or employee of the Postal Service in the same manner and under the same conditions as if the applicant, officer, or employee were subject to the competitive service under such title. The provisions of this paragraph shall not be modified by any pros^ram developed under section 1004 of this title or any collective-bargaining agreement entered into under chapter 12 of this title, " (3) The provisions of this subsection shall not apply to those individuals appointed under sections 202, 204, and 1001 (c) of this title. "(b) Section 5941 of title 5 shall apply to the Postal Service. For «° ^'^'- ^i^purposes of such section, the pay of officers and employees of the Postal Service shall be considered to be fixed by statute, and the basic pay of an employee shall be the pay (but not any allowance or benefit) of that officer or employee established in accordance with the provisions of this title.
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