Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-15
U. 5. Pay'Cei|ing
Set at $4,000
By Conferees
House and Senate Due
To Act on STAT Raise
Monday or Tuesday
BULLETIN

BULLETIN
The congressional conferees
on the postal service pay bill
decided on a $3.50 fiat raise for
salaried workers, a 21a cent in
crease for those paid on an
hourly basis and S per cent
increase for fourth-class post
masters. The House bill had
called for a $3.50 fiat raise for
salaried employees, while the
Senate version had a 500 figure.
DISTRICT WORKERS TO GET
Retroactive Pay by Tuesday.
Story on Page AGO.
Senate-House conferees decided
on a $4,000 salary ceiling for the
classified civil service today, as
they completed action on bill to
give a Sal average annual raise
to $4,000 workers.
Final Senate and House sp-
proval of the measure is expected
Monday or Tuesday.
In deciding on the $4,000 top,
however, the conferees provided
that not more than Is employees
shall receive that figure at any
one time, these to be designated
by the President.
Other Glasses Also Limited.
Further. they placed limitations
of IS and 300, respectively, on
employees in the second and third
salary brackets from the top. The
second bracket pay is $4,000 and
the third is $4,000.
Positions at these levels would
be designated by the Civil Service
Commission.
After completing action on the
classified pay bill the conferees
went back to work on the measure
to grant pay boosts to postal work.
ers. They expected to adjust diff
ferences of this bill before end
ing the session.
The conferees yesterday reached
agreement on the salary increases
for classified employees up to the
$l0,330 level. Employees in the
lower grades Jared better per-
centage-Wise than middle bracket
or upper bracket employees.
! Table Shows Increases.
A table elsewhere in today's
Star shows the individual increases
each Government classified en-
ploye will receive.
: The measure turned out to be
more liberal than was first ex-
pected, owing largely to the last
minute provision adopted by the
Senate last week in enacting the
pay measure. This provided an
additional 500 in salary increases
for employees in the first four
grades. The amendment waA
sponsored by Senator LANCER, Re-
publican, of North Dakota. .
Although the additional 500
provided in the amendment did
not prevail entirely in House.
Senate conference, it did give Sem
ator LANCER enough of a bargain
ing point to retain the extra 500
for the first two grades, an addi-
tional SITS for the third grade, and
$50 for the fourth grade over the
original increases proposed.
Up to $500 for Some.
Consequently, many employees in
the first four grades will get raises
of between $3.50 and 5000. Others
will get nearly as much.
The measure affects nearly 200,-
900 classified Federal employees in
the Washington area, including
1900 District Government work
ers. 1t costs $130,000,000.
The conferees knocked out of
the bill the Senate provision to
overhaul the Governments effici-
ency rating system. But they or.
dered the Civil Service Commits
sion to report to Congress within
six months with recommendations
for replacing the present efficiency
rating system with a more simph-
fed program.
Also, the confereeS adopted the
Senate provision to give cash
awards to supervisors who operate
their units economically.
On postal pay the conferees
have before them the House.
enacted $3.50 postal pay measure
with fringe benefits and the Sem
ate-passed postal bill. which pro-
vides a fiat 500 increase and does
not include such House features
as increased annual leave and
unl.>~m allowance benefits.
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