Evening star., 1921-04-18
FEDERAL POSITIONS
CLASSIFIED IN BILL
PRESENTED TODAY
Measure by Senator Smoot
Provides for Grades of
Service in Capital.
PRESIDENT MAY INCLUDE
CITY AND OUTSIDE WORK
Salaries, With Bonus Eliminated.
Effective Third Month After
Date Act Is Approved


| The Smoot bin providing for reclas-
siication of government empIoyes
was offered in the Senate TODAY nv
senator Smoot of Utah. The bill has
neen drafted by Senator Smoot after
conference with other members of
the senate appropriations committee
and with efficiency experts of the
government.
Senator Sterling Of South Dakota OBJ
'ec'eo 10 the formal Introduction of
tne Dill and under the rules it laid over
for day.
Inc Dill applies to all civilian en-
pioyes OF the federal government in
'ne District of Columbia except me-
chahics. machine operators and skilled
tradesmenin the government printing
once and the bureau of engraving and
printing, and the commissioned and
enlisted personnel of the United states
coast and geodetic survey. the COAST
suaro ana the public health service
Inc PRESIDENT. however, by exec
NV u.lVe order is authorized to extend
.m app,Iicatlon OF the proposed law to
al ei'iiian employees of the govern
. nen!. including persons EMPLOYED
o9 Issue the district and the employees
& 1I the municipal government Of the
Provides for Eighteen Gr,se..
Inc Dill provides eighteen grades in
the government service, with salaries
ranging from $3.50 to those above
st'ooo. 1t is provided that the head
OF each department and estabIishment
snau, under rules and regulations pre.
nos.ts o by the President, allocate the
n II
!ishment TO grades in accordance with
tne schedule contained in the bill
me mead OF each department and
estapNshment within the salary range
IT, mI III proper grade will determine
.ne salary to be paid each empIove bv
comparing his efficiency with the ay,
e!aee emcfency Of all employes as.
signed to the same work. or. II no
esnes esms employees are engaged upon the
parinr the beomrParaoie work. by COM
with the efficiency winch reasonobIv
should be expected.
| Ihe salaries Of all EMPLOYEES in e.ch
oepa sment or establishment fixed i'm
shall bece becems Win the proposed law
gay OF the third month following the
uate OF approval Of the act. and No
employees shall thereafter be paid
e1sy exceeding the maximum rate
scribed for the grade to which his
position is allocated. ~" N''
th pLovided, however. that during
.ne probational employment of
new naor.s ssmploye or during the first six
new work the head of a department
or establishment may. in his discre-
tlon. nx the salary Of the appointee
or employe in the next grade below
Gated. 10 ANU
Provision for Payment.
fhe head Of each department and
establishment is authorized to spend
during the fiscal year ending June
80: 1929, from any money appro-
p.la.eo Tor personal services. such
sums as may be required to pay the
rate or compensation fixed in accord
ance with this act. The President
from time to time. shall submit esti-
mates of such additional amounts as
year.
This means the repeal Of the salary
provisions Of the executive, legisla-
tive and judicial appropriation bill
containing the $240 bonus passed at
the last session of Congress for the
fiscal year 1922, as soon as the re-
classification act becomes effective.
Provision is made that nothing in
the proposed law shall be construed
to affect the limitations placed BY
OF persons to be employed in any
department or establishment.
It is provided that the bureau of
emciency shall aid the President as
ne may request in the preparation
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the schedule of grades. and in pre-
pairing rules and regulations for car
rying the law into effect. The bureau
of efficiency is to investigate and re-
port to the President upon all mat
hn
effect Of these rules and regulations
Grades and Salary Ranges.
The grades and salary ranges pro.
vided in the bill are as follows:
Grade SALARY range, per annum,
$3.50 to $3.50: per hour, not to exceed
30 cents. Light janitorial work, char
women.
Grade SALARY range. per annum.
$40 to 1920. Running errands with
in an Office and doing light tasks.
Grade SALARY range, per annum.
$500 to $1.0SO. Supervising a small
group of persons doing light jani-.
torial work; handling heavy objects,
such as desks, mail sacks and other
work usually required of unskilled
labor.
Grade 4-Salary range, 5000 to 1880
There are nine classes of employment
work. operating elevators, and guard
ing Office and storage buildings.
Grade 5-Safary range, $1140 to
$500. Glasses of employment in this
grade are twenty-six, running from
supervision of a small force of un-
skilled laborers to work of a pri-
mary character in an engraving es-
tablishment.
Grade 6-Salary range, $500 to
$3.50. The classes of employment
are twenty-four, running from the
operating Of small heating plant
to receiving and treating emergency
cases of illness in the departmental
relief room. Ordinary stenographic
work.. typing from plain copy. ETC..
also included.
Grade SALARY range. $1.5o0 to
$3.50. Thirty classes in this grade.
the character of work ranging from
supervision Of a large force Of un-
skilled laborers to engraving on copper
plates, Topographic maps and nauti-
cal charts, and including various
kinds of responsible clerical work
Grade S-$1.6S0 to 5000. There are
twenty-five classes of employment in
this grade, ranging from the work of .
foremen of skilled mechanics to
translating work involving a knowl-
edge of two or three of the less dim
cult foreign languages. and including
supervision over the work of a group
of clerks engaged On time records
Grade SALARY RAM. Sl.sso 70
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