What is the effect on pay and within-grade increases?
Employees in a non-pay status do not receive basic pay and there can be no deductions or allotments taken from pay during the non-pay status. In addition, Federal regulations require an employee to be in a pay status for a specified number of weeks before being eligible to receive a within-grade increase. For example, an employee at step 1 on the pay scale must be in a pay status for 52 weeks before advancing to step 2. Seasonal employees are not in pay status all 52 weeks in a calendar year. Thus, they are not eligible for a within-grade increase on their one year anniversary of being employed. Rather, they have to wait until they have 52 weeks in a pay status before being eligible.
