The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-09
HEAVY SALARY
LOSSES TO JAR
U. S. employees
Some Federal Workers Will
Lose Fourth to Third of
Income by Cut.
BY RUTH FINNEY
Times STAFF Writer

WASHINGTON, July 9.-Early
next week complete plan for adj
ministering government depart
ments under the drastic new econ
omy act will be submitted to Presi-
dent Hoover.
He is expected to act on it
promptly, to end uncertainty and
confusion prevailing among more
than 100000 government workers
over the country as to their tenure
in office and their annual incomes,
ever since the bill became law.
This week a tentative plan for
administration is being prepared by
the federal council of personnel adj
z1inistration, composed of the chair
man of the civil service commission.
the secretaries of agriculture. in
terror and commerce, chief of the
bureau of efficiency, director of the
bureau of the budget, chairman of
the interstate commerce commits
sion, and the administrator of vet
Grams affairs.
The principal points at stake are ::
May Order Five-Day Week
Extent of dismissals necessary un-
der reduced department appropria-
tons, and extent of additional fur
loughs, beyond the twenty -four
working day furlough imposed gen.
orally.
Manner of allowing employees to
take their payleSs days off-either
half day, week, or in one stretch.
According to present indications,
the council will recommend estab-
lishment of the f1ve-day week in the
government service, letting employees
take Saturday off instead of stop
ping work at l p. m. on Saturdays
This would mean no vacations with
pay for workers during the year.
Department heads favor this
method of furloughing because it
would prevent workers from secur-
ing leave which they have not
earned. 1t also would prevent work.
ers from accommodating time off dur
ing the first part of the year, and
being entitled to time off in large
numbers toward the year end.
Half Escape With "a Days Pay
Only about half of the govern
ment workers will escape with de-
duction from their salaries of
twenty-four days pay, this weeks
conferences have disclosed.
The commerce department has
announced that it's workers will
have to take sixty days additional
leave to bring it within appropria-
lions, and if this order is put into
effect, workers in this department
will lose approximately one-fourth
of their annual incomes.
The civil service commission ten
tatively has decided on a forty
two-day furlough in addition to the
general one, and the personnel
classification bureau faces ninety
days additional furloughs. Workers
here would lose third of their
annual incomes.
Justice, labor and interior de-
partments are hit heavily, but are
waiting rulings from the comp
troller- general before announcing
the effect upon employees.
Hits Army Officers
The war department has issued
an order directing all officers who
were on leave when the economy
act became law to report for duty
at once. Those on leave or on. their
way to new posts are ordered to
report either at old or new posts
OR at ports of embarkation if they
we're detailed to duty overseas.
They face loss of pay for every
day on leave when they fail to re-
ceive word of their new status.
The navy has announced aban-
donment this year of all f1fteen-day
training cruises for naval reserves
Aviation training will be continued
but for only about IS per cent OF
the normal quota of students. Pro-
motion requirements affected by this
training have been waived