Evening star., 1924-10-13
EFFICIENCY RATING
WORK COMPLETED
Bureau to Submit Report to
Department Heads This
Week for Consideration.

An efficiency rating, by which all
employees in the civil service in the
District of Columbia Will he weighed
in the balance" after November IS,
has been practically completed by the
Bureau of Efficiency. and will be sub
riltted to all departments and estab-
iishments of the Government this
week.
rms was announced today by Har-
old n. Graves, member of the Per-
sonnel classification Board and Of
the staff of the Bureau of Efficiency,
who said the Government chiefs will
be asked to consider the proposed
new rating. and return to the Bureau
of Efficiency their comments
The rating will then be finally
agreed to, and submitted to the
Personnel Classification Board, which
has the power under the classified
tion act to review and revise"
Changes in salaries of employees
may be made by departmental heads
after November Is, when it is ex-
pected the new system will go into
effect.
Some Unaffected.
The new rating will not affect
all of those persons who have been
classified under the classification act
but VIII operate only on those in
the civil service who, however, con-
stltute large army of Uncle Sans
workers in this city.
The matter which will be sub
mitted to the department and estab-
lishment heads this week will proba bly,
go forward by Wednesday, Mr.. Graves
estimates. 1t will include one sheet
or the efficiency rating form itself,
and several pages of typewriter
matter fai nj inrr
tion OF the system developed. Govern
ment chiefs will be asked, to
scrutinize the rating and return to
the Bureau of Efficiency, with the
frankest comment based on their best
judgment.
Already many Of the lower grades
OF the civil service in this city are
working under an efficiency rating
so the problem of the Bureau OF
Efficiency has been to extend a sys-
TEN for the higher grades. and ar
range to make the system uniform in
principle throughout.
Workers Mny View Ratings.
A new departure, however, in ef-
fciency ratings of Government en-
ployes will be employed when this
new system is put into effect, as, un-
der the classification act, each en-
pioye Will be permitted to see his
own efficiency rating card and OBJ
serve how his chief has handled his
case.
Concerning this privilege for en-
ployeS, the classification act specifi-
cally says: The current ratings for
each grade or class thereof shall be
open to inspection by the representa-
tives of the board and by the en-
ployes of the department under con-
ditions to be determined by the board
after consultation with the depart
ment heads.'
Authority to department heads to
make drastic changes in salary after
November Is is contained in this
paragraph in the classification act:
reductions in compensation and
dfsmissals for inefficiency shall be
made by heads of departments in all
cases whenever the efficiency ratings
warrant. as provided herein, subject
to the approval Of the board"
May Make Promotions.
Promotions, likewise, will be made
within the grades on the basis of
the new efficiency rating. In fact,
the specific language of the act says
that the new rating shall set forth
the degree of efficiency which shall
constitute ground for (a) increase in
the rate of compensation for en-
ployes who have not attained the
maximum rate of the class to which
their positions are allocated, (b) con-
tinuance at the existing rate of COM
pensation for employees who at the
time are above the minimum rate
for the class to which their positions
are allocated, and Cd dismissal"
November Is Is the date under
which employees have been rated semi
under the previous system of
efficiency rating, and 1t is expected
that Government chiefs will 20 over
their entire lists Immediately after
that date, provided the new system is
ready by that time. There is every
Indication at the present time that
the Bureau of Efficiency and the Per-
osnnel Classification Board will have
promulgated the new system in ample
time for the rating to begin Novem-
Der Is.