The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-17
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RE.A[lX
Reconsideration Board VIII
Complete Field servioe List
Before D. c. Employees

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The third degree" quiz for
field service employees Of the Fed
eral Government, numbering
nearly 100000 workers, Is about
ready.
The personnel classification
board has the QUESTIONABLE vir-
tualIy completed, and within an
other week the expansion Of its
staff to care for the gigantic task
before it will have begun.
| Largest Of Such Tasks.
The classification of workers now
confronting the board is the largest
that has ever been undertaken In
the United States or any other
country. 1t is far more comprehen-
siye and difficult q work than the
mobilizing OF data relating to the
civil service employees in Washing
ton, which was originally under
taken in 1913. Tt Is bigger than
/ the various Industrial or State clas-
I sffications that have been made.
| Until this work relating to the
/ field service has been completed,
the personnel classification board
will have little time to devote to the
Federal employees in the District OF
Columbia.
| The main goal Of the board 10 to
have the complete classifi ation
ready in advance of the work upon
the estimates Of the various depart.
ments, which go to the Budget Blu
reau in the late summer. The &C.
tual work. of considering disputed
ALLEGATIONS of employees I'm the vari.
GUS grades and divisions VIII not
begin until later.
Powers OF. Bureau Chiefs.
The procedure to be taken by the
hoard with respect to the disputed
points in ALLEGATIONS and efficiency
ratings has not yet been determined.
The department heads and bureau
chiefs are given entire authority
/ under the law to make the alloca-
lions of individual employees. The
| personnel classification board can
take up ALLEGATIONS which are OF
doubtful Interpretation of law, but
only in cases where its opinion has
been asked. It il not anticipated
that these cases will be many.
The board has taken no action
whatever upon the efficiency
ratings made by the Bureau OF Ell
ficiency, and cannot forecast at
this time to what extent they VIII
be followed.
The general policy of the board,
a policy written into the text OF the
sterling-Lehlbach law, is to follow
the Bureau of Efficiency ratings
wherever practicable or possible.
| From certain departments, how
ever, complaints are coming that
these ratings, made more than a
wear ago, have become obsolete by
reason of shifts Of work or trans
fers of employees. 1t goes without
saying that the Bureau OF Effici-
ency itself will revise these ratings
as soon as possible.
Plan for Big Dinner.
There will be no controversy over
such ratings between the Bureau of
Efficiency, the Civil Service Com
mission, and the Budget Bureau.
The law provides that the ratings
of the Bureau of Efficiency are to
be followed "as far as practicable, !"
and the personnel classification
board will not be urged to main
tain in force ratings which arr
demonstrably out of date.
A great Jubilee dinner celebrating
the passage of the Reconsideration
law will be held by the Federation
of Federal Employees on Saturday
night, March "a, according to an
announcement made by. Luther P.
Steward, president OF the fedora.