related provisions covering postal field service employees

related provisions covering postal field service employees Sec. 105. (a) Section 304(c) of such Act, as amended (72 Stat. 146; 39 U.S.C. 974 (c)), is hereby repealed. (b) Section 401 of such Act, as amended (39 U.S.C. 981), is amended by adding at the end thereof the following subsection: “(d) Any increase in basic salary granted by law on or after the effective date of this subsection shall not be deemed to be an equivalent increase in basic salary within the meaning of subsection (a) of this section.” 74 Stat. 298 (c) The annual rate of basic salary of any officer or employee whose basic salary, immediately prior to the effective date of this subsection, is at a rate between two scheduled rates, or above the highest scheduled rate, in the Postal Field Service Schedule, the Rural Carrier Schedule, or the Fourth-Class Office Schedule, whichever may be applicable, is hereby increased by an amount equal to the amount of the increase made by this part, m the next lower rate of the appropriate level in such schedule. As used in this subsection, the term “basic salary” has the same meaning as when used in the Postal Field Service Compensation Act of 1955. (d) This part shall have the same force and effect within Guam as within other possessions of the United States.