Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-31
Civil Service Commission
Acts Upon Order Issued
by President.
REGISTER TO BE OPENED
FOR UNEMPLOYMENT
Ruling Gives Preference to Those
Let Out of Places Due to
Reduction in Forces.

Moving to act Immediately on the
executive order announced by Presi-
dent Coolidge in his address before the
business organizations of the Govern.
ment Saturday night. the Civil Service
Commission announced today that 1t
would establish at once a re-employ-
ment register, on which discharged
employees having the necessary quail
fications for re-employment and satis-
factory references will automatically
be eligible for employment before
those on the regulag eligible list are
taken up.
The executive order has the immedi.
ate effect of establishing a new eligible
list, giving employees discharged be-
cause of reduction of force a priority
status and preference over those who
may be entering the Government serv-
Ice for the first time. 1t amends ex.
ecutive orders of November. 1918, and
April, 1919. which provided for the
placing on re-employment registers of
the names of competent employees sep
arated from the service by reason of
reduction Of force.
Recommendation Necessary.
The commission, In it's announce
ment today, made 1t plain that the
employees placed on the re-employment
iist must be competent to fill the posi-.
tlons TO which they may be assigned.
ana tnat they must be recommended
for further employment by an official
OF the department Of their last Gov
ernment employment
The order will have the effect of
placing several thousand persons on
the unemployment registers ahead of
those who have passed civil service
examinations but have had no pre-
Vlous service. Instead of merely
placing the names of discha rged en-
ployes on the rolls and permitting the
commission to certify either from the
re-employment list or from new lists
OF ehgioles, IL makes mandatory on
the commission that vacancies must
oe f1lied from the unemployment reg
lister.
The text OF the executive order
follows:
The names OF pesons in the COM
petitive classified service with un-
restricted status who were appointed,
eltner permanently or PROBATIONARY.
ana who have served less than three
years, and who are sepasated from the
service because OF a reduction of
force, and who are recommended for
further employment by the Govern
ment because OF demonstrated ef-
ficiency in the Office from which they
are separated. will, upon request. be
entered by the Civil Service Comrnis-
sion upon appropriate registers for
reappointment, eligibility thereon TO
continue for one year from date OF
separation.
Must Conform to Practice.
Such unemployment registers will
be separate and apart from the reg
listers of the commission resulting
from current examinations and eligibil-
ity thereon, and certifications and ap-
pointme1ts therefrom shall in all re-
speets conform to the usual practice
and procedure, except that certifica-
tions of persons formerly in the ap-
portioned, service shall be made with
out regard to the apportionment
when departments or establish
ments make requisition on the Civil
Service Commission for certification
of eligibles, the commission will make
certifications from the unemployment
registers so long as there are eligibles
thereon with the necessary qualifica-
tions."