The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing a proposed rule to clarify that bargaining unit employees detailed or temporarily promoted to a higher grade, or who perform higher graded duties assigned by the agency, should be paid appropriately for the entire time performing these duties if a collective bargaining agreement requires employees be paid for performing higher graded duties and employees have been assigned these duties outside of competitive hiring procedures. Current regulations prohibit employees from being appropriately paid for higher-graded duties performed in excess of 120 days and assigned without competition. As a result, the principle of equal pay for equal work is absent and bargaining unit employees are unable to have meaningful recourse through their negotiated collective bargaining agreement.