5 C.F.R. § 575.202 Definitions.
Title 5 - Administrative Personnel
Title 5: Administrative Personnel
PART 575—RECRUITMENT, RELOCATION, AND RETENTION INCENTIVES; SUPERVISORY DIFFERENTIALS; AND EXTENDED ASSIGNMENT INCENTIVES
Subpart B—Relocation Incentives
§ 575.202 Definitions.
In this subpart:
Agency means an executive agency or a legislative branch agency included in 5 U.S.C. 5102(a)(1).
Authorized agency official means the head of an agency or an official who is authorized to act for the head of the agency in the matter concerned.
Competencies means the knowledge, skills, abilities, behaviors, and other characteristics an employee needs to perform the duties of a position.
Employee has the meaning given that term in 5 U.S.C. 2105, except that the term also includes an employee described in 5 U.S.C. 2105(c).
Employee of the Federal Government means an employee (as that term is defined in 5 U.S.C. 2105, except that the term also includes an employee described 5 U.S.C. 2105(c) and (e)) of any part of the Government of the United States (which includes the United States Postal Service and the Postal Rate Commission).
Executive agency has the meaning given that term in 5 U.S.C. 105.
OPM means the Office of Personnel Management.
Rate of basic pay means the rate of pay fixed by law or administrative action for the position to which the employee is relocated before deductions and including any special rate under 5 CFR part 530, subpart C, or similar payment under other legal authority, and any locality-based comparability payment under 5 CFR part 531, subpart F, or similar payment under other legal authority, but excluding additional pay of any other kind. For example, a rate of basic pay does not include additional pay such as night shift differentials under 5 U.S.C. 5343(f) or environmental differentials under 5 U.S.C. 5343(c)(4).
Service agreement means a written agreement between an agency and an employee under which the employee agrees to a specified period of employment of not more than 4 years with the agency at the new duty station to which relocated in return for payment of a relocation incentive.
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