Presidential policies and regulations

§ 5304. Presidential policies and regulations The functions, duties, and regulations of the agencies and the Civil Service Commission with respect to this subchapter, subchapter III of this chapter, chapter 51 of this title, the provisions of part III of title 39 relating to employees in the postal field service, chapter 14 of title 22, and the provisions of chapter 73 of title 38 relating to employees in the Department of Medicine and Surgery, Veterans’ Administration, are subject to such policies and regulations as the President may prescribe. Among other things, 1 he policies and regulations of the President may provide for— (1) preparing and reporting to him the annual comparison of Federal pay rates with private enterprise rates; (2) obtaining and reporting to him the views of employee organizations on the annual comparison, and on other pay matters; (3) reviewing and reporting to him on the adequacy of the Federal statutory pay structures for the Federal programs to which they apply; (4) reviewing the relationship of Federal statutory pay rates and private enterprise pay rates in specific occupation and local areas; and (5) providing step-increases in recognition of high quality performance and providing for properly relating supervisory pay rates paid under one system to those of subordinates paid under another system.