The Washington times., 1936-07-09
DELAY
HOLDING UP
VACATIONS
BY ]. EARLE MOSER


Delay at the White House in
Issuance Of an executive order
making leave regulations through
out the Government service Is
wreaking havoc with the vacation
plans Of many employees.
Because many departments and
agencies, thr ough precaution,
have adopted temporary leave
regulations much stricter than
the permanent ones are expected
to be, the initial year Of leave
reformation bids fair to be far
less beneficial than later ones
should prove.
The principal complaint re-
ceived from workers is that many
offices have limited annual leave
to it's accumulation until final
word is received from the Presi-
dent via his expected order. En-
ployeS cannot. at this time, get
any part Of the 26 days of an
nual vacation they desire, much
less the whole, except their &C
emulation.
The result is that a clerk who
has taken no annual leave this
year has accumulated but slightly
more than Is days at the present
time and most of them consider
that amount too slight for vaca-
ton, as little residue would be
left for emergencies. With the
majority forced to wait until late
summer before getting vacation,
many are going to be cleft out in
the cold"
In his decision some time ago
to the Civil Service Commission,
former Comptroller General Nc
Carl definitely ruled that sick
leave could no longer be granted
by the year. as it once was, but
must be accumulated. This deci
sion, however, was based on the
wording of the sick leave act,
which orders that employees shall
receive SICK leave Eat the rate of
one and Cne-quarter days per
month"
The annual leave statute, though.
says nothing about the rate Of
Sccrual, but states:
"All civilian officers and en-
plOyes -. regardless of their
tenure, IN addition to any
accrued leave, shall be EN-.
TITLED to rs days annual
leave with pay each calendar
year, exclusive Of Sundays and
holidays"
The Civil Service Commission
did not ask Mr.. McCarl to rule
on the accrual of annual leave be-
cause Of this difference in word
ing Of the two laws, and while
the annual leave statute allows
the leave 70 be granted lat such
times as the heads of the various
departments and independent es-
Establishments may prescribe" any
permanent limitation as to accrual
would prove a definite imposition
on rank and file.
Delegates Ready
Delegates to the D. c. Fedora
ton Of Federal Employees IN. F.
F. Ed who are to receive ap-
pointments to various committees
within a few days have been an
nounced. They are:
Library of Congress, Robert
CuShman; Agriculture, Mary
O'Donnell, Elmer Thompson and
A. Sidney Frye; Justice, Louis
A. Mehlinger; Local No. II at
large, Mrs. I. A. Letcher, James
G. Deal, Garner +. Mahony and
S. T. Gaffney; Bureau of En-
craving and Printing, Maud T.
Miller, Mignon Miller, Nora B.
James, Minnie D. Stevens, Mary
Willard, Violet M. Turner and
Gertrude Schellhorn: Navy Yard,
Mrs. Virginia A. Radigan and
Blanche E. Sinclair; Bureau of
Standards, Mary Conner, Victor
L. Lowe, G. j. Kramer, DR.. K. H.
Logan and F. C. Breckenridge;
War Department, Charles Bonnie
villee, Herbert Soloman, Ger.
trude s. Coyle, Pearle Cooper and
r. K. Gheen; Treasury, Roberta
L. Lindsay, L. Zaff Rogers, C. C.
Glen, j. o. Burnham, Mabel N.
Matthias and Mrs. Margaret K.
Weidemann: Adjutant Generals
office, Charles Kothe, Marie Ma.
Zourek. Louis A. RoSafy. Emory
j. Tarr, Viola Milne and Velma
Smith