Evening star., 1933-03-24
CIVIL SERVICE BODY
ASKS M'CARL FOR
|. ECONOMY RULINGS
Three Questions Raised on
FurIoughs in Excess of
Statutory Month.
COMMISSION PRESENTS
4 ADDITIONAL QUERIES
Controller Generals Prior Deci.
sions~ on Problems Favored
Employees.

AnOtner group OF problems on leave
and pay involved in the economy legis-
lation, which goes into effect on April /,
was before Controller General McCarl
today for rulings.
Sent Forward Yesterday.
The questions went forward yesterday
from the Civil Service Commission,
acting in behalf of the Personnel Off,
GERS Association, shcrtly after McCarl
had rendered to the Treasury initial
interpretations on the law
The Civil Service Commission raises
three questions bearing on administra-
tive furlough-the payless leave in ex-
cess of the statutory month required
under the legislative furlough provision
of the current law.
These are:
Whether there shall be any credit
allowed against the rate of pay deduc-
ton to be put into effect on April for
administrative furlough already taken.
II an employe administratively fur
loughed IS days shall he get refund
of one and one-fourth days pay from
the legislative furlough deducted up
to March 81. provided the furlough
has not beep used?
Base Rate Sought.
Will the salary deduction for ad-
ministrative furlough or voluntary alb
sence without pay after March 81 be
at the base rate or the base rate less
the rate of deduction to be fixed under
the new pay schedule?
There are four other questions pre-
sented as follows:
THE act of March 20. 1888. makes
effective the provision authorizing Is
days of annual leave. Does the annual
leave begin to accrue on April 1?
In branches ordinarily operating on a
calendar year leave basis, may the
full Is days be taken between April
/ and December 81, 1888, or shall the
Is days be prorated over the nine re-
manning months of the year? In
branches ordinarily operating on a fis-
cal year leave basis, may Is days OF
annual leave be granted prior to June
so, 1888. beginning new leave ac-
count for the fiscal year 1884?
May annual leave which had ac-
c-ued and was unused on June 80, 1882,
be granted to employees after March 81,
1893? Has annual leave at the rate
Of Is days been accruing since July /,
1882, under the provisions of section
2l5 of the legislative act of June 80,
1882?
Question Accrued Leave.
Section 2l5 Of the legislative act Of
June 80. 1882, states, in part: Pro-
vided, that the part unused in any
year may be cumulative for any sue
ceeding year Does this mean leave
will accrue for the year Immediately
following or indefinitely? For example,
| may an emplaye accumulate his leave
for period of four years and take 60
days in one leave year?
Section 4, paragraph %, subdivision
CD of the act Of March 20. 1888, reads
as follows: The appropriations OF
portions Of appropriations unexpended
by reason of the operation of the
amendments made in subsection (a) OF
this section shall not be used for any
purpose, but shall be impounded and
returned to the Treasury Section 8
of the same act reads: The appropri-
ations or portions of appropriations
of this act shall not be used for any
purpose, but shall be impounded and
returned to the Treasury In submit
ting the estimates for salaries for the
fiscal year 1884, the departments were
required to deduct 8ks per cent from
the original estimate as representing
the furlough deductions which during
the present fiscal year are required to
be impounded in the Treasury. In
view Of this it would seem that the
paragraphs above quoted should be
construed as requiring impoundment
during the fiscal year 1884 Of. only the
difference between 81s per cent and
the IS per cent or other determined de-
duction from salaries; otherwise, there
would be in effect a double impound-
ment or 23la per cent reduction in
available funds. Your ruling on this
point is also requested"
Employees Favored.
Controller General McCarrs first de-
cisions were based on legislative fur
Tough problems, and both were in ia
vor of employees. He held accrued
leave could be used any time before
the end Of the fiscal year, and that tie
workers were entitled to a pay adjust
ment in March If deductions made for
the first three-quarters of the year
were in excess of 2212 days pay.