---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 C.F.R. § 532.281"
title: "5"
number: "532.281"
heading: "Special wage schedules for divers and tenders."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/5/532.281"
---

# §532.281. Special wage schedules for divers and tenders.

- (a) Agencies are authorized to establish special schedule payments for prevailing rate employees who perform diving and tending duties.
- (b) Employees who perform diving duties shall be paid 175 percent of the locality WG-10, step 2, rate for all payable hours of the shift.
- (c) Employees who perform tending duties shall be paid at the locality WG-10, step 2, rate for all payable hours of the shift.
- (d) Employees whose regular scheduled rate exceeds the diving/tending rate on the day they perform such duties shall retain their regular scheduled rate on that day.
- (e) An employee's diving/tending rate shall be used as the basic rate of pay for computing all premium payments for a shift.
- (f) Employees who both dive and tend on the same shift shall receive the higher diving rate as the basic rate for all hours of the shift.

## Notes

### Amendments

[55 FR 46146, Nov. 1, 1990]

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 5343, 5346. Sec. 532.707 also issued under 5 U.S.C. 552.

### Source

Source: 46 FR 21344, Apr. 10, 1981, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[55 FR 46146, Nov. 1, 1990]