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[CITE: 5USC9509]

 
             TITLE 5--GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES
 
                           PART III--EMPLOYEES
 
                        Subpart I--Miscellaneous
 
  CHAPTER 95--PERSONNEL FLEXIBILITIES RELATING TO THE INTERNAL REVENUE 
                                 SERVICE
 
Sec. 9509. General workforce classification and pay

    (a) For purposes of this section, the term ``broad-banded system'' 
means a system for grouping positions for pay, job evaluation, and other 
purposes that is different from the system established under chapter 51 
and subchapter III of chapter 53 as a result of combining grades and 
related ranges of rates of pay in one or more occupational series.
    (b)(1)(A) The Secretary of the Treasury may, subject to criteria to 
be prescribed by the Office of Personnel Management, establish one or 
more broad-banded systems covering all or any portion of the Internal 
Revenue Service workforce.
    (B) With the approval of the Office of Personnel Management, a 
broad-banded system established under this section may either include or 
consist of positions that otherwise would be subject to subchapter IV of 
chapter 53 or section 5376.
    (2) The Office of Personnel Management may require the Secretary of 
the Treasury to submit information relating to broad-banded systems at 
the Internal Revenue Service.
    (3) Except as otherwise provided under this section, employees under 
a broad-banded system shall continue to be subject to the laws and 
regulations covering employees under the pay system that otherwise would 
apply to such employees.
    (4) The criteria to be prescribed by the Office of Personnel 
Management shall, at a minimum--
        (A) ensure that the structure of any broad-banded system 
    maintains the principle of equal pay for substantially equal work;
        (B) establish the minimum and maximum number of grades that may 
    be combined into pay bands;
        (C) establish requirements for setting minimum and maximum rates 
    of pay in a pay band;
        (D) establish requirements for adjusting the pay of an employee 
    within a pay band;
        (E) establish requirements for setting the pay of a supervisory 
    employee whose position is in a pay band or who supervises employees 
    whose positions are in pay bands; and
        (F) establish requirements and methodologies for setting the pay 
    of an employee upon conversion to a broad-banded system, initial 
    appointment, change of position or type of appointment (including 
    promotion, demotion, transfer, reassignment, reinstatement, 
    placement in another pay band, or movement to a different geographic 
    location), and movement between a broad-banded system and another 
    pay system.

    (c) With the approval of the Office of Personnel Management and in 
accordance with a plan for implementation submitted by the Secretary of 
the Treasury, the Secretary may, with respect to Internal Revenue 
Service employees who are covered by a broad-banded system established 
under this section, provide for variations from the provisions of 
subchapter VI of chapter 53.

(Added Pub. L. 105-206, title I, Sec. 1201(a), July 22, 1998, 112 Stat. 
716.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 9501, 9507 of this title.
