Evening star., 1932-07-09
FWE-DAY WEEK
APPEARS DOOMED
Sentiment in Departments
Generally Believed to Be
Against Move.
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disappointment to proponents, who
looked upon it as the entering wedge in
uniform application Of the principle for
private industry. President Hoover was
as favoring the pan.
1t has already been adopted by the
Government Printing Office, in Navy
Department field service and for
per diem workers In the District Gov
ernment. Workers themselves, how
ever. who have made their views
known. have opposed it, Federal En-
ployes Union No. 2, being the latest
to come in with a protest, which was
made public yesterday. The Fedora
ton of Federal Employees Unions also
hit the proposal, and 1t is understood
that this display of sentiment was seen
as q prominent factor in the argument
ags lst applying it.
In McCarls general instructions,
effective this coming payday-the f1f-
teenth--he laid down regulations as
follows:
THE act approved June 80, 1892,
Public No 2l2, enacted to accom-
plish savings in the conduct of the
Government, requires that during the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1893, each
officer and employe, with certain excep-
tions, receiving compensation on an an
nual basis at rate of more than 81 900
per annum, shall be furloughed with
out compensation for one calendar
month or for such periods as shall in
the aggregate be equivalent to one CAL
endar month.
This means there shall be retained
in the Treasury such portion Of all ap-
preparations for personal services as will
equal the saving thus provided for.
ITO insure such saving as is so re-
quired by the enactment and to avoid
payments in contravention of law, a
minimum of l "a days pay g 1-3 per
cent? will be deducted from each officer
and employe to whom section 101 Ib)
is applicable on each semi-monthly pay
roll or voucher-regardless of whether
the officer or employe has or has not
been absent during such period-a pro-
portionate deduction to be made where
the pay period is greater or less than
a half month.
Gives Example of Rule.
when an officer or employe is absent
on furlough for more than one working
day during semi-monthly pay period,
deduction will be made at the rate of
Ia days pay for each working day of
such absence fractional parts of a day
to be considered as day for this pur-
pose).
For instance, for an absence of two
days and one hour during such pay
period, deduction will be made of three
and three quarter days pay, but only
the actual time taken to be charged as
time absent in the department, except
that if the aggregate of all absences on
furlough from July l, 1882, to the end
of the pay period involved. does not ex-
ceed the number of working days for
which deduction heretofore has been
made, the deduction for such semi
monthly pay period will be only the
minimum deduction Of one and one
quarter days pay.
when pay has been deducted for "a
working days at the rate Of one and
quarter days pay per pay day Zone
months pay), no further deduction
will be made on account OF furlough
under section 101 (b). and any addi-
tional absences, except on sick leave or
military leave when authorized by law
or regulations, having the force and
effect of law, will be regarded as alb
sence without pay and charged for in
accordance with rules and regulations
heretofore applicable to such absences:
Where large pay rolls are involved
it is appreciated this may operate to
delay payments because of the time
actually required to prepare the roll
for certification and delivery to the
disbursing officer unless there be CO.
operation by all concerns and co-ordi-
nation of the work of the administra-
tive activities involved, but one OF the
prime purposes OF the law is to retain
this saving in the Treasury for other
essential uses, and there may not prop
erly be made advances to officers and
employees on the theory that recovery
can be accomplished before the close
of the fiscal year.
There may occur during the latter
days or hours of a pay period an unex-
pected requirement that an officer or
employe be absent from duty, but the
administrative procedure should be such
that notice will be so promptly given
the disburSing officer as to enable him
to withhold payment to such officer or
employe for such adjustment as the
facts may require.
THE accounting procedure hereunder
and necessary supplement to the Gov
ernment salary tables will be promul-
gated promptly hereafter"
In connection with that section deal
ing with deductions for full days, where
the absence was only a fraction of a
day, it was said that the employe
would be entitled later to the other time
for which he had been penalized.
Rights TO Annual Leave.
In another decision the controller
ruled against Government Printing
Office employees getting leave this year
which they had earned in the last year.
This same decision covered some other
points. 1t was as follows
''The term annual leave refers to all
vacation leave of absence with pay au-
thorized by law, and (or) regulation
for each, whether based on the CAL
endar, fiscal or service year, or the per-
sonal pleasure, convenience or benefit
of the officer or employe, but does not
include sick, quarantine and military