Evening star., 1932-08-02
CAMPBELL TO ASK
NEW 5DAY WEEK
RULING BY M'CARL
Controllers Decision CompIi-
Gates Plan of Civil Service
to Change Schedule.
LEGISLATIVE FURLOUGHS
MUST BE TAKEN FIRST
Difference in Pay Deductions Also
Observation-Disclosures
to Be Sought.

Faced with a decision by Controller
General McCarl, which mitigates Sc
verely against the five-day week, Presi-
dent Thomas E.. Campbell Of the Civil
Service Commission today decided for
mally to ask McCarl to reconsider
some Of the questions involved.
Informal conferences on the matter
took place this morning between repre-
sentatives of the Civil Service Com
mission and the General Accounting
Office. Gov. Campbell announced an
other series of questions would be sub
mitted to McCarl, but he was not yet
ready to disclose them in detail.
Two outstanding features of the Nc
Carl decision were held by Gov. Camp
bell seriously to affect operation of the
flve-day week.
Would Cut Pay More.
In the first place, it has been figured,
he said, that the McCarl decision would
penalize Government workers under the
five-day week by about three-quarterS
of l per cent of their salary more than
the Government worker on legislative
furlough. The five-day week worker,
McCarl held. must have his pay cut by
one-eleventh, as compared to the
smaller ga per cent deducted from
other Government workers
In the second place, McCarl held that
all legislative furlough must be taken
before any administrative furlough.
This complicateS the five-day week sit
uation, because the five-day week,
which is a substitute for the legislative
furlough, runs throughout the entire
year. leaving no time left to lay on an
administrative furlough.
The five-day week thus was brought
to sharp issue again.
The Civil Service Commission asked
McCarl if the legislative and admin
strative furloughs could be taken at the
same time to run concurrently, but Nc
Carl denied this He held that mo ad-
furloughS may be required
or permitted to be taken until the legis-
lative furlough of one calender month
or "a working days has been completed
and the amounts so saved impounded. :"
No Time for FnrIough.
Employees on a five-day week basis,
McCarl held, should have their pay re-
duced, according to the economy act,
the same as persons on a per diem basis
five-day week They receive ten
elevenths of full pay. making the pay
cut one eleventh. This a greater than
the 8k3 per cent which is taken from
annual employees who are taking the "a
day compulsory payless furlough at
various, odd times throughout the year.
&c oil
week, or legislative compulsory FUR
lough.
Another important question raised by
McCarl's ruling on this five-day-week
pay deduction, according to Gov. Camp
bell. is whether the administrative fur
Tough may be applied to the Civil Serv-
ice Commission and other groups in the
Government on a five-day week, while
the deductions are being made for the
Saturday morning off duty. In other
words, McCarl held that the legislative
and administrative furlough could not
be applied concurrently. But If the five
day week is substituted for the leglsla-
tive furlough, the five-day week runs
throughout the year. If. therefore. a
Government office waited until the end
of the five-day week at the end of the
year to apply the administrative fur
Tough there would be no time left to
apply the legislative furlough.
Gov. Campbell said he had taken up
the questions involved in McCarl's de-
cision especially as applied to the five
day week, and had decided to submit
further questions to the controller gen.
eral, especially on the question of ap-
plying the administrative furlough on
top of the five-day week. In his pre-
0ro1fN NlN0lI M nd
the Civil Service Commission contem-
plated applying AZ days administrative
furlough on the employees on flve-day
week in its own establishment.
As Leaves without Pay.
The Government units on five-day
week now include the Department Of
Labor. United States Employees Com
pensation Commission and the National
Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.
In addition, per diem employees of the
Government Printing Office, navy yards
and some field services are on five
day week. Per diem people in the Bu-
reau of Engraving and Printing are not
on a five-day week, but on the legiS-
Iative and administrative furloughs.
In his decision TO the Civil Service
Commission McCarl brought up new
point of accounting, to decide that the
pay deduction for a legislative furlough
day and an administrative furlough day
will be different
Under the economy act and the
McCarl decisions. when an employe is
off duty one working day under the
legislative furlough he is deducted IA
days pay, but under the administrative
furlough. this new decision holds, he
is to be deducted for only one days pay
but must include Sundays and holl-
days. Administrative furloughs will be
the decision said. simply
as leaves of absence without pay.