Book excerpt: Hearings before the Subcommittee on Compensation and Employee Benefits to consider H.R. 4477, the Federal Employees Compensation Reform Act of 1979, the Administration bill, to broaden Federal employees compensation comparability with the private sector by including fringe benefits as well as pay rates, and to bring Federal compensation rates more closely in line with private rates. Pt. 2 Continuation of hearings before the Subcommittee on Compensation and Employee Benefits to consider H.R. 4477 (dept rpt, p. 81-84), the Federal Employees Compensation Reform Act of 1979, to broaden Federal employees compensation comparability with private sector by including fringe benefits as well as pay rates and to bring Federal compensation rates more closely in line with private rates.