To ensure that the percentage increase in rates of basic pay for prevailing wage employees shall be equal to the percentage increase received by other Federal employees in the same pay locality, and for other purposes.

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] This bill prohibits (1) any prevailing rate employee in a federal agency, between January 1 and September 30, 2019, from being paid an amount exceeding specified limits resulting from an applicable wage survey adjustment; and (2) the percentage increase in wages paid to a prevailing wage employee in FY2019 from being less than the percentage increase in the basic pay of other federal employees in the same pay locality.…