---
kind: "section"
citation: "2 U.S.C. § 298"
title: "2"
title_heading: "The Congress"
number: "298"
heading: "Reductions in compensation level"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/2/298"
units:
  - "Chapter 10 — Classification of Employees of House of Representatives"
---

# §298. Reductions in compensation level


Each [employee](/usc/2/4558.md?p=2) in a position of a compensation level of the House [Employees](/usc/2/4558.md?p=2) Schedule (HS) or the House Wage Schedule (HWS), whose employment in such position and level is terminated and who is reemployed, with or without break in service, in a position in a lower compensation level (HS level or HWS level) of such schedule, or whose position is placed in a lower compensation level of such schedule pursuant to a reclassification of such position, shall be placed by the committee in such step of such lower compensation level as the committee deems appropriate.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 88–652, § 9, Oct. 13, 1964, 78 Stat. 1083.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Jan. 1, 1965, see section 17 of Pub. L. 88–652, set out as a note under section 291 of this title.