Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-09
FEDERATION 0. KS
RETIREMENT BILL
Lehbach Measure offers Ad-
ditionaI Benefits, En-
pIoyeS Head Ayers.

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to the annuity for the average salary
The bill includes employees of the
Oniteo States Soldiers Home and the
National Home for Disabled Volunteer
Sololers, employees of the Indian Serv-
ice al large, and employees of the State
department outside continental limits
OF the United States, which groups were
not heretofore included within the pro-
visions of the act
-, An employees individual account is
Ihe amount deducted from the en-
ploye rs salary minus 81 a month, which
Is Wlthheld to form a 'tontine,' which
makes possible the increased annuities.
requirement. at the option of the en-
ploye is provided at a period two years
carrier than the present retirement age.
ms is not as early an optional retire.
menu age as We desire, but we believe
tnaG upon experience developed from
tnls tWo-year period we will be able to
secure optional retirement after 80
years OF service without regard to age
WITHIN comparatively short time"
Retirement at Age Of 20 Years.
The Lehlback bill provides generally
Tor retirement at the age of 70 years,
after at least IS years of active service.
City, rural and village letter carriers,
post ONCE clerks, sea post clerks, labor
ers and mechanics would be eligible for
retirement at the age Of IS years:
Railway postal clerks, mechanics and
laborers in navy yards, and those en-
ployes engaged in pursuits whose occu-
patton is hazardous or requires great
physical effort, or which neceSSitateS
exposure TO extreme heat or cold, and
those employees whose terms of service
shall include Is years or more of such
service rendered in the tropics, shall be
eligible for retirement at So years of
age. Classification of employees for as
signment to these various age groups
would be determined jointly by the
Civil Service Commission and the head
Of the service in which the employee
works. There are several provisions
protecting mechanics involuntarily
transferred to other work or to minor
positions. Mechanics" specifically in
cludes all employees in the Government
Printing Office whose duties are to SUI
pervise, perform, or assist in apprentice,
helper or journeyman work of a recog
nized trade or craft as determined by
the Public Printer.
Automatic Separations.
The Lehlbach bill provides that all
employees coming under the act shall
be automatically separated from the
service on arriving at retirement age
and having rendered Is years of service
Salary, pay or compensation shall cease
from that date. and it shall be the duty
of the head of each branch of service
to notify such employees at least so days
In advance of the date of such separa-
ton from the service.
If the head of department, bureau
or independent Office certifies to the
son of efficiency and willingness to re-
main in the United States civil service
the continuance of such employe would
be advantageous to the public service.
then an employe may be retained for q
term not exceeding two years upon the
approval and certifcation by the Civil
Service Commission, and at the ned Of
the first two years extension may be
similarly continued for an additional
two years.
1t is specifically provided, however,
that after August 20, 1880. no employee
shall be continued in the civil service of
the United States beyond the age Of
retirement for more than four years.
It is also specifically stated In the
Lehlbach bill that no person separated
from the service who is receiving an
annuity under the retirement act shall
be employed again in any position
covered by the retirement law.
To Whom the Act Applies.
The retirement act applies to the fol-
lowing employees and groups Of en-
ployes:
(a) All employees in the classified
civil service of the United States, in
GLIDING all persons who have been
heretofore or may hereafter be given a
competitive status in the classified civil
service, with or without competitive
examination, by legislative enactment,
or under civil service rules promulgated
by the President, or by executive orders
covering into the competitive classified
service groups Of employees with their
positions, or authorizing the appoint
ment of individuals to positions within
such service.
(b) superintendent of United States
national cemeteries and such employees
OF the oftices Of solicitors Of the sew
eral executive departments, Of the
architect Of the Capitol, of the Library
OF Congress, of the United States Bo-
tanic Garden, of the recorder of deeds
and the register of wills Of the District
OF Columbia, of the United States Sol
diers' Home, OF the National Home for
Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Of the
State Department without the CONT
mental limits of the United States who
are Unied States citizens, and of the
Indian Service at large, whose tenure
OF employment Is not, intermittent nor
of uncertain duration.
Co All employees of the Panama
Canal on the Isthmus of Panama who
are citizens of the United States and
whose tenure of employment is not in
termittent nor Of uncertain duration.
cd Unclassif1ed employees of the
United States in all cities and in all
establishments or Offices in which APP
pointmentS are made under labor regu-
lations approved by the President, or
from sub-clerical or other registers for
the classified service, and unclassified
employees transferred from classified
positions. These groups shall include
only. those employees whose tenure of
employment Is not intermittent or of
uncertain duration.
!. (e) All regular annual employees of
the municipal government of the Dis
trlct OF Columbia. appointed directly by
tent authority, including those employees
receiving per diem compensation paid
out of general appropriations and in
Guiding public school employees. except
ing school officers and teachers.
% All employees and groups of en-
ployes to whom the Dement'S of the re-
tirement act of May %, 1920. as amend
ed, shall have been extended by Execu-
tive order.
(g Postmasters Of the first, second
and third class who have been pro-
NOTED, appointed or transferred from
the classified civil service