Evening star., 1949-05-09
BieeerU.S.P
Increase Sought
In Low Brackets
Long lndlcotes Group
Viii Re~rite Terms
OF Classification Bill
D, Joseph Teeas

Chairman loslg q s1se Sraats
clNi Service saaccsnFnutrs en-
Federal pay lsgtSlaslon today In.
dieated strongly that hls group
woald FrwFits ihs adn,nsss1At8ax
Classification Act revision pro
posal IN osaet 10 gtte q larger
pay increase to lower efarkr, en1.
nioNek
Senator Ions expressed hia
views &s hls sroIp opened hear.
Ines or Federal pay !eglA!Atinn
The LOUISIANA Drmocyat polnlnd
out that The administrator
measure would provide paw
raise OF only 81 - for employees in
grade CAF-i. while N the same
time giving tsTo a year more ,a
empioyes tn the top grade Is
Explains UppeF. Bracket Raise.
ismAr Baruch, chief Of the CIVIL
Service commiSSionK peraosnel
classification division. ~as the first
witness,
Mr.. Rarueh sAid the revasions
we're necessarily more liberal 20
upper bracket employees In order
10 undo the squeezing effect" az
the three other Government pay
raises since lsAa.
Lower Bracket Raises Higher.
The witness said these prior In
ereases had considerably increased
the salaries Of lower bracket em.
ploses. while restricting higher
salary workers because OF the
$4,000 Federal pay ceiling
Senator Long asked Mr.. RArueh
II he did not think that q 81 s2-a-
year increase was fairly low "
Mr. Barueh replied that tha
was not intended to be = cost of
living pay measure. but q reyi-
sion OF the Classification Act.
which was badly needed
Felt Blil should Include Raise.
While he declared other ad-
ministration offlcials Who will tes-
tify later will have 10 discuss cost
of-liYins factors. Mr.. HAfuch said
II was his understanding thst
the administration felt that any
cost OF living increase should be
included In the classification
changes.
Mr.. BaFnch also vaa asked
whether the commission planned
TO submit recommendation for
changing the 0ovcrnmentk EN-
cheney rating system. the legality
Of which Is based on the clasAia-
cation Act Of 1929
Mr.. Bariich replied that such
proposals would be made. but the
commission did not think this
should be done ~ part OF the
classification measure
Opposes Present system.
Speaking for himself and not
for the commission. Mf. Bat7ich
said that he would recommend the
abolition OF the present xystsm.
In It's place. Mr. Bar,ich said.
there should be n systeFn whereby
the individual Government depart
ments and agencies would haze
the right 10 set up their own en-
cheney rating systems. subject 20
post auditing by the commission.
The witness SAid the nsw sys-
tenn should be devised 20 ~ 20
put stress on more harmonious
empioye MANAGEMENT relation
ship. rather than Raaging the
work OF individual employees
Scheduled 10 follow Mr. Bafueh
today are Commissioner Ewan
Ciaaue OF the Bureau OF Labor
Statistics and Joseph wlnaiow
Of the Budget Bureau,
At the outset Of the hearing.
Senator Long Aald that MIA group
would consider regular pay raise
bills in addition 10 the admin
istration's bill. with . view To-
ward working out the best bill
tina. could be achieved II is
expected that the COMMITTEES wiii
provide more liberal increases
than the White House biii within
the provisions Of the adfntnsstra-
sasysss yAefa msBNam fsesrs measure