Evening star., 1933-04-07
LEAVE THIS YEAR,
TO Be i1lk DAYS
McCarI Fixes Limit for
Workers on calendar
Year" Basis.

Government employees In establish
ments ordinarily operating on a calen-
dar-year basis are entitled to liz
days leave up to December 81 next.
The fun force Of the IS per cent
pay cut Is to be invoked without re-
gard to any administrative furlough ap-
piled In those agencies where this form
OF payiess leave was resorted to In
order to avert dismissals nor Is any
credit to be allowed for legislative
furlough where the actual absence ex-
ceeded 18 days-the pro rata amount
due to be taken under the old economy
act-by April l.
These were outstanding rulings In a
series handed down late yesterday by
Controller General McCarl in response
TO request from the Civil Service
Commission for Interpretations of the
new law effective April /.
Time Of Available Leave.
With regard to this foregoing phase
OF leave, the commission had asked II
the privilege. now restored, of taking
10 days, was TO make the entire amount
available before the end Of this year or
whether it should be prorated over the
remaining nine months. In the branches
operating on calendar year basis.
McCarl held that the old economy act
had suspended leave until April /, and
that consequently, the leave could not
start before that date. 9asNF
The commission also asked If estab-
lishments on q fiscal year basis could
take Is days before June 30, and start
a new leave year then. but the con-
troller general declined to answer this
question. He said that the commission
Is not on this basis and that therefore
the query was not properly presented.
McCarl held also that leave now may
be cumulative, subject to administra-
tive control or regulation" but he ruled
also that annual leave accrued up to
June 80, 1892. when the old economy
act became operative, cannot be taken.
He pointed out in support of this that
the former leave law, under which so
days was given, made no provision for
accumulation. 4
In passing on the applicability ofsthe
Is per cent cut, McCarl settled ques-
tions raised in several quarters. Some
officers thought that where administrs-
tive furlough had been necessary. some
credit would be allowed against the new
pay reduction until the end Of the pres
ent fiscal year. -
Legislative FurIough.
Another side had been presented with
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the old Law, 1t was provided that this
furlough should be applied at the rate
of two days q month, for which two
and one-half days pay was TO be- de-
ducted-a day and . quarter for each
day. In some establishments, to clean
up the legislative furlough, as much as
five days, calling for. deduction Of six
and one-quarter days pay had been re-
quired. This absorbed It early. It was
argued in some quarters that the leave
had only been taken because it was
necessary, and under the assumption
that the law was TO remain m eject
until the end of the present fiscal year.
Therefore, 1t was contended, that there
should be either q refund of the entire
amount over 18 days, which cost "a
days pay, or at least OF one-quarter of
. days pay for each day over 10. This
last would have amounted to refund
of IL days pay, where the whole legis-
1ative fur]ough had been applied.
The controller, however, said that
where the senploye had actually been
absent, no refund was possible. At the
same. time, however, he reafdrmd q
decision to the Secretary Of the Treas
ury that II, by April + leave In ex-
cess Of 10 days had been deducted and
not taken, q refund should be made,
and that If leave up to. 1s days had been
accumulated. 1t should be granted the
employe before the end Of the dscal
year.
In another ruling. he said that any
worker who had been on administrative
furlough for Is days up 70 April I. was
entitled to q refund Of one and one
quarter days pay II . Legislative. fur-
lough deduction had been made cover
ing that period, and the worker had not
taken the leave. -
Rate Of One Days Pay. y.
McCarl, in response to another, ques-
ton, said that administrative furlough,
or ordinary leave, from now on, would
be at the rate Of one days pay@-the
same as under the old law.
The controller general declined to
pass on q question relating to impound-
ment which, 1t was said elsewhere,
would be certain to arise again.
It was pointed out to him by the
Civil Service Commission that when
the departments submitted their esti-
mates for 1894. they were reqnired to
cut 81-3 per cent from their original
figures. which were on the 1898 basis,
this representing the amount that had
the old economy act was applied TO the
Under the new act. it was added, re-
quiring impoundment Of ! unexpended
appropriations. it would appear that the
amount to be covered back to the
Treasury would be the difference be-
tween 81s and the is per cent rednc-
ton of the new act, otherwise the total
cut. for impoundment would be asa
per cent. 1
Mr.. McCarl repeated. however, that
this was another question not yet af-
fecting the Commission, inasmuch as
its appropriation. has not yet been
made, and that. therefore, the question
WAS mt r,rf1Yaerlv raised