Evening star., 1935-08-29
NAVY CLASSIC y|NG
PLAN, COMPLETED,
0AFFECT 1873
Project Costing $279,220
to Be Confirmed on
Sunday.
PAY INCREASES DUE
FOR 17.6 PER CENT
625 Persons in D. G. Yard Are
Included in New Per-
sonnel Set-up.

A complex Seven-month job, cost
ing $279,220 and designed to bring
Navy Department employees in the
field service into line with a previous
classification established in the de-
partmental service here, was finished
today and their final classification
will become effective Sunday.
Secretary Swanson has approved
the new classification, undertaken in
response to an edict by Congress
At the Washington Navy Yard, 825
employees are affected, but the Navy
Department said it would not be pos
sible to give figures for the percent
ages of those who get increases and
whose status is variouSly affected
1919 Are Affected.
For the whole Nation, however, the
percentages have been worked out
showing how 1919 employees in the
field service, who are employed at
navy yards, naval stations and ir
other activities of the department, are
affected.
While 56.s per cent of the 7,81s
field employes-4,4O0-a not affected
directly as to pay or grade in the
final classification, the new set-up
gives pay increases to 17.6 per cent OF
the number-1,375 workers.
Those classified in the higher grade
than the present tentative classified
ton, without increase in compenSa-
ton, total 1,486. Four hundred and
forty-one are classified in a lower
grade than their present tentative
classification, but without reduction in
compensation. Classified in a lower
grade than at present and suffering
q pay cut will be 1T employees.
William D. Bergman, chief clerk
OF the department and senior men,
ber of the Department Personnel
Classification Board, explained that
while the percentage of employees Sc
curing increased salaries under the
new set-up may look small, from
time to time field employees got in
creases under the Wage Board
awards. These raises were designed
to meet the cost of living in the
various localities where the navy
yards and stations are located These,
he said, approximated the raises Sc
cured under classification of the
workers on duty in Washington.
Based on Duties.
The final classification, the Navy
Department explained, is based on the
duties and responsibilities of each
position and was effected under the
provisions Of section 2 Of the Brook
hart salary act of July 3, 1880. This
legislation authorized and directed
the heads of the several executive de-
partmentS to adjust the compensa-
ton of certain civilian positions in
the field services 'to correspond, so
far as may be practicable, to the
rates established by the classification
act of 1928, as amended"
The study for classification OF field
service employees meant that each
navy yard and station had its own
board. This added burden of work
was handled in addition to other
duties by experts in the specialized
field of classification and resulted in
the Department Personnel Classifi-
ton Board examining some 10000
Job classification sheets since August
Is, 1881.
Affected by the final classification
under the Navy Department are Gov
ernment workers engaged in clerical,
administrative. fiscal. professional, sub
professional and custodial work.
The head nf each agency within the
Navy Department, the local personnel
classification board and the command
ing officer of each Navy yard of sta
tion made recommendations for the
final classification. In Washington
the Department Personnel Classifica-
ton Board reviewed and co-ordinated
these recommendations.