Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-27
VACATIONS OF us.
EMPLOYEES MAY Be
ADELEGAL RIGHT
Thirty Days Annual Leave Is
Sister Recommendation
Made to RecIassifiers..

The annual leave Of government
employees here will be given the status
Of a legal right, instead of being re-
garded merely as privilege accorded
the clerks. as at present. II recon-
mendations made to the Joint congress
sionaf commission on reclassification
Of salaries in the plstftet eFa acted
upon favorabiy and later o. K'd by
Congress. -.-
RECOMMENDATION that the 'priyi-
1875 $4,000 phi isssss ssS ass
within the jurisdiction OF: The: reeiasAi.
fication corijn1ission be &boiiahed, and
in it's stead annual leave be set up as
a legal right, has been made to the
commission; by the advisory commit
tee on employment policy. 1t was
learned today. -,
That uniformity in the civil service
be sought on the basis OF thirty days
annual leave with pay is g sister, rec
ommendauon made to the commission,
which If carried out will mean that
the thirty days ANNUAL leave Will be
made an actually for hundreds OF
clerks who only get thirty days theo-
retically at present = -sE-,r ...
Many Get: Twenty Days Only.
Thousands of federal employees
here dot notf get more. than twenty
days annual leave, on the average,
statistics compiled by the reclassifica-
ton commission from the question
raire cards in it's possession show.
The average sick leave taken by the
government clerk here is only seven
days The average annual and sick
leave together is about thirty-three
days.
These facts, officials hold, complete
ly upset the commonly held opinion in
Washington and elsewhere that all gov.
eminent clerks in the departments get
full thirty days annual leave every
year, and that the great majority take
thirty days annual sick leave with
pay, some even taking sick leave when
they are not i'll, as had been declared.
30 Days Leave Would BE Fact.
The plans, as recommended to the re-
classificationists. call for the establish
ment of the full thirty days annual leave
on a legal basis. This would mean. it
Is declared, that perhaps thousands OF
clerks would get thirty days annual
leave for the first time since their con-
nection with the federal service.
1t would mean that the individual
rulings of bureau chiefs in the matter
of annual leave would be done away
with, and instead Of the clerks being
told, as at present. that the annual
leave is granted them in the light of
privilege, the clerks might look upon
their annual leave as a legal right.
Other Matters Considered.
Further considerations on which the
advisory committee on employment pol
icy Is working are the questions Of sick
leave, hardness, Saturday half-holidays.
overtime pay, limitations on outside
work and attendance Of clerks at scien-
tific and technical conventions
Limitations on outside work are to
be considered from the standpoints Of
education, outside work for pay and
literary work on unofficial subjects.
Printing Bureau to BE Heard.
Employees Of the bureau Of engraving
and printing and Of the government print
ing office will present their claims for sal
airy increases to the reclassihcation COM
mission at a hearing to be held at 9: 80
o'clock tomorrow morning in room 426,
Senate office building.
Several briefs will be presented the
commission. Women in the printing
trades will be represented by two
briefs. Miss Anna G. Burke will pre-
sent a brief for the women of the
government printing Office, and Miss
Belle A. Trouland will speak for the
women of the bureau of engraving
and printing.
Daniel 1. Leane. president of the
pressmen's union. government print
ing office. will present a brief for the
typographical printing. presswork
and bookbinding services and the ad-
illustrative officials. He will speak
for administrators printers. book
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