National Institute of Standards and Technology
Alternative Personnel Management System (APMS)
Project Operating Procedures

Human Resource Systems:  Employee Relations

1.  Introduction

The Project legislative provisions on employee relations are Sections 10(b)(4)(B) and 10(c)(6)(B).

a. Section 10(b)(4)(B):  Employees shall be evaluated under a performance appraisal system which ... affords appeal rights comparable to those afforded under chapter 43 of title 5, United States Code.

b. Section 10(c)(6(B) provides that the placement of a position in a lower pay band, because the incumbent was not given a comparability and locality pay increase due to unsatisfactory performance, "shall not be considered a reduction in grade or pay for purposes of subchapter II of chapter 75 of title 5, United States Code, or a comparable provision under the project."

2.  Placement in a Lower Pay Band

a. Automatic – See Section E – Pay Administration

b. Voluntary - See Section E – Pay Administration

c. Involuntary - See Section E – Pay Administration

3.  Loss of Supervisory Differential

a. When an employee receiving supervisory differential is reassigned from a supervisory position to a non-supervisory position, the supervisory differential is removed in accordance with the formulas and ceilings described under Section E – Pay Administration.

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