Evening star., 1933-09-12
GROUPS. TO ADJUST
FEDERAL WORKERS
COMPLAINTS URGED
Civil Service Commission Will
Recommend Committees
in Departments.
ROOSEVELT APPROVES
OF PROPOSED PROCEDURE
Bodies Will Consist of Six Mem
bers, With Seventh to Be
Called in Deadlock.

Establishment of conciliation COM
mittees by various Government de-
partments to consider complaints and
adjust differences of employees, will be
recommended by the Civil Service Com
mission.
The commission revealed today, in
experimenting with the plan, it already
had set up such committee for its
own workers. The committee consists
of three employees in supervisory posi-
tons and three in non-supervisory
posts. The personnel was announced
as follows:
Ismar Baruch. chief Of the personnel
classification division; Farrar Smith,
manager of the fourth civil service dis
trict, and Laura L. Tracy, chief Of the
clerical examination section of the
examining division, constituting the
supervisory group; John @. Cannon
and Ernest G. Dodge. examiners, and
Maude v. Carter. civil service adviser,
constituting the non-supervisory group.
Roosevelt Approves.
The commission announced that the
plan has the approval of President
Roosevelt, and pointed out that while
1t has no authority to require any de-
partment or Office TO follow the lead,
compliance could be voluntary.
The plan was outlined by the commits
sion as follows:
ITO consider differences between en-
ployes of the Government and their
supervising officers on any matter which
may affect the standing of said en-
ployes in their relationship with ths
Government
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throughout the Government service in
Washington and eventually in the field.
The number Of such committees to bs
determined by the necessities of the
situation in any of the departments,
administrations or commissions of the
Government, but there must be at least
one such committee in each entity.
Said committees to be composed of an
equal number of heads of divisions, or
other superior officers, and employees.
Employer representatives to be named
by the heads of the various departments
or independent establishments and en-
ploye representatives to be named by
the heads Of the employe organizations
within each of the departments or in
dependent establishments.
! Seventh Person to Decide.
Complaints may be filed with su /
| committees by any employe who cen
siders that he or she has ground FIR
complaint.
In the event that there is not a
majority decision by committee con-
sidering any particular case, then tha
members of that committee shall call
in seventh person from that particular
entity who shall also consider the evi-
dence presented and whose opinion shall
be deciding
There shall be the right of appeal
| from the decision of the original Cons
citation Committee to the Board of Ap-
| peas and Review of the Civil Service
Commission. and eventually to the COM
| mission itself"
1t is probable that the commission &
| first recommendation will be made ia
| one of the larger departments. If there
appears to be good prospect of success.
, recommendations to other branches will
| follow.
The Board of Appeals and Review Of
| the commission has been in existence
| for about three years. Its primary func-
| ton is to consider appeals from rat
| ingS in examinations or other actions
| of the commission in its relations with
| applicants or eligibles. Under the pro-
posed new plSn, the Board of Appeals
and Review would hear complaints Of
employees as well, If those making thu
complaints were not satisfied with the
/ findings of the conciliation committees,
The commission itself would be tha
court of last resort.