Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-10-18

TobIe Showing Federal Poy Scale Agreed
on by Conferees. poss b.
pay raise legislation this morning.
and quickly approved a bill that
gives a flat 10 per cent pay raise
to everybody except employees
earning less than $4,000 a year,
who would get $500, and employees
earning more than $4,000 a year,
who would get no more than $500.
The conferees then quickly ap-
proved the postal rate increase
bill, which contains the graduated
leave rider.
Military Service Counted.
The graduated leave provision
provides Is days annual leave to
Federal employees with up to three
years of service, 20 days for en-
|ployes with three to Is years of
service and 26 days for those with
Is or more years Of service. In
approving the original Senate
rider on graduated leave, the con-
ferees changed only the provision
that would have given employees
20 days after two years of service.
The conferees changed this to
make it a three-year requirement.
For leave purposes, military
service will be counted as part Of
Federal service. Also. the con-
Iferee's bill allows employees to &C
lcumulate unused annual leave
from year to year. eliminating the
present ban against such prac-
tees.
Sick leave is reduced from IS
days to Is days. but employees
are allowed to accumulate all of
their unused sick leave. At pres
Ient employees may not accumu-
late more than 90 days sick leave.
Effective Next January.
The conferees' provision re.
places the present 20-day annual
leave system for classified en-
lployes and the Is days for postal
workers. The provisions are sched-
uled to 90 into effect next Janu-
AIRY 6.
The pay raises the conferees ap-
proved are retroactive to last
July /.
In approving the measure, the
lconferees voted to drop from the
bill the more than 7,70O District
policemen. f1remen and teachers.
This decision was prompted by
the insistance of several HOUSE
District Committee members that
these employees come under their
jurisdiction.
Quick Senate Action Sought.
Immediately after the conferees'
action today. the Senate District
COMMITTEE, under authority re-
Gently voted it by its membership.
prepared to amend the House.
passed bill for these District
workers to give them the same
$500 to $500 a year increase voted
for Federal employees.
Chairman Nicely of the Senate
District Committee said an at
tempt will be made to have the
Senate act on the bill TODAY.
House District Committee MEM
bers said they would accept the
Senate's amendment to their
original bill, which provided a
flat $500 raise.
Late Filing Permitted.
In the House, Chairman MURRAY
Iof the Post Office and Civil Service
Committee obtained permission to
file up to midnight tonight the
conference reports on classified
employees pay raises, postal en-
|ployes' pay raises and postal rates.
This would make possible ac-
ton some time tomorrow by the
House unless the conference re-
port on the controversial tax bill
is ready for action. The House
probably would take up the tax
bill report first.
The House will act on the postal
and pay raise bills and send them
to the Senate for final Congress
sional approval.
The Senate District COMMITTEES
plans to include in its separate
bill for police, firemen and teach
|ers' pay raises, a proviso to au-
thorize that any increases granted
by wage boards to the city's per
diem workers be made retroactive
to July /.
The conferees previously had
approved a $500 to $500 a year
increase for postal workers. They
said it would take at least a day
or two before reports are filed on
the pay raise bills, which then
will be presented for final House
and Senate approval.