---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 C.F.R. § 536.101"
title: "5"
number: "536.101"
heading: "Purpose."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/5/536.101"
---

# §536.101. Purpose.


This part contains OPM regulations for the administration of grade and pay retention. This part supplements and implements the provisions of [5 U.S.C. 5361-5366](/usc/5/5361-5366.md) and must be read together with those sections of law. Under [5 U.S.C. 5362](/usc/5/5362.md), an employee under a covered pay system who is placed in a lower grade (e.g., as a result of a reduction in force or when his or her position is reduced in grade as a result of a reclassification) is entitled to retain the grade held immediately before the reduction for a period of 2 years under the circumstances prescribed in this part. Under [5 U.S.C. 5363](/usc/5/5363.md), an employee whose rate of basic pay otherwise would be reduced as a result of a management action is entitled to retain his or her rate of basic pay under the circumstances prescribed in this part.


## Notes

### Source

Source: 70 FR 31305, May 31, 2005, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 5361-5366; sec. 4 of the Performance Management and Recognition System Termination Act of 1993 (Pub. L. 103-89), 107 Stat. 981; § 536.301(b) also issued under 5 U.S.C. 5334(b); § 536.308 also issued under sec. 301(d)(2) of the Federal Workforce Flexibility Act of 2004 (Pub. L. 108-411), 118 Stat. 2305; § 536.310 also issued under sections 1913 and 1918 of the Non-Foreign Area Retirement Equity Assurance Act of 2009 (subtitle B of title XIX of Pub. L.111-84), 123 Stat. 2619; § 536.405 also issued under 5 U.S.C. 552, Freedom of Information Act, Public Law 92-502.

### Source

Source: 45 FR 85656, Dec. 30, 1980, unless otherwise noted.