S. 1498 — Wildland Firefighters Pay Equity Act of 1999

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Wildland Firefighters Pay Equity Act of 1999 - Amends Federal Civil Service provisions regarding the computation of overtime pay to provide that: (1) the overtime hourly rate of pay for U.S. Forest Service employees in the Departments of Agriculture and Interior engaged in emergency wildland fire suppression is an amount equal to one and one-half times the hourly rate of such employees' basic pay, whether such pay falls below, equals, or exceeds the minimum rate of basic pay for GS-10; and (2) all that amount is premium pay.

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H.R. 2814Wildland Firefighters Pay Equity Act of 1999
1999-09-14Referred to the Subcommittee on Civil Service.
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1999-08-04
Introduced in Senate
1999-08-04
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs.
1999-09-30
Referred to Subcommittee on International Security.

Wildland Firefighters Pay Equity Act of 1999

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