QUALITY STEP INCREASES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79-00317A000100030027-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 28, 1998
• Sequence Number: 27
• Publication Date: March 28, 1963
• Content Type: REGULATION

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This Notice expires 1 April-1964
PERSONNEL H3 20-90
28 March 1963
QUALITY STEP INCREASES
a. HN 20-79, Step Increases, explained.requirements and procedures,
consistent with the Federal Salary Reform Act of 1962, for granting
regular step increases to employees whose work is of an acceptable
level of competence.
b. This notice announces requirements and procedures for granting
step increases in recognition of high quality performance. Such
increases, hereinafter referred to as quality step increases, are
granted apart from and in addition to regular step increases.
They are designed to encourage excellence by recognizing and
rewarding the employee whose sustained work performance is above
that characteristically found in the type of position concerned.
2. ELIGIBILITY. A quality step increase, consisting of one step
within the pay range of his grade, may be granted to any GS--grade
employee whose performance is determined to be of sustained high
quality. No more than one quality step increase shall be granted to
an individual within any period of 52 weeks.
a. High quality performance is atypical and is characterized by an
employee's performing the functions of his job with unusual pro-
ficiency and in a manner that substantially exceeds the normal
requirements of his assignment. To establish eligibility for a
quality step increase, an employee's work performance, when viewed
as a whole, must be considered to be exceptionally strong and of
a high degree of effectiveness.
b. To warrant consideration for a quality step increase, high quality
performance must be sustained for at least six months and must
give promise of continuing.
c. In determining the most suitable form of recognition for an employee
whose performance meets the requirements for a quality step increase,
consideration should be given to whether an Honor and Merit Award
would be more appropriate. This might be the case, for example,
if he is at the top step in his grade or is about to receive a
regular increase to that step, or if he will not remain in Govern-
ment service long enough to derive real benefit from a step increase.
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HN 20-90
28 March 1963
a. An employee's supervisor may recommend that an employee be given
a quality step increase by forwarding a memorandum through command
channels to the Head of the employee's Career Service. The memo-
randum must state the supervisor's reasons for evaluating the
employee's performance as of sustained high quality.
The Head of the Career Service shall consider each recommendation
and determine whether the employee's performance merits a quality
step increase. If he determines that a quality step increase
should be granted to the employee, the Head of the Career Service
shall forward the supervisor's recommendation and his own state-
ment of concurrence to the Director of Personnel.
c. The Director of Personnel shall review the recommendation and, on
determining that the, granting of the increase meets Agency require-
ments, shall approve an action authorizing the quality step increase.
He shall inform the Head of the Career Service of the action taken.
The increase shall be effective at the beginning of the first bi-
weekly pay period after its approval.
FOR THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE:
25X1A9a
Acting Deputy Director
(Support)
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