Evening star., 1951-11-04

The 1852 supplemental bill.
signed by President Truman,
once again restores these employees
to permanent status in their new
agency at their former grade.
And career employees who from
now on transfer to other agencies
will be assured this right. In ad-.
dition, all career employees in nom
defense agencies are given abso-
Lutte unemployment rights to their
defense bureaus who transfer to
old jobs when the emergency pro-
gram ends.
Defense Department career work
ers who transfer to non-defense
agencies are given permanent sta
tuS at the grade they held in
their defense unit. They do not
receive the absolute re-employ-
ment rights that non-defense ca
reer workers are given.
The permanent status rights
given defense workers who trans
fer to non-defense agencies may
not last too long. The Civil Service
Commission is working on a plan
to freeze these employees to their
present jobs and deny them status
If they transfer. however. Until
the commission issues its regula-
tions. defense workers may trans
fer with status rights to their old
grade in the new agency.
PROMOTIONS The new law
signed by President Truman con-
tains for another year the ban on
permanent promotions. The law
also provides that employees must
serve at least a year in their pres
ent grades before becoming eiigi-
BILE for temporary promotions.
with the following exceptions:
Employees who are within reach
OF appointments to higher-graoe
positions on a Civil Service regis
ter. and those who are being ad-
vanced to higher grades from
which they previously had been!
denoted or separated as a re-
suit OF a reduction -in-force. These.
groups may be promoted at any
time.
Promotions Of more than one
grade are banned. except in the
ollowing cases: professional,
scientific and technical employees
who have qualified for two-grade
promotions authorized under the
Civil Service Classification Act,
where two-grade promotions or
more are made to positions not
higher than GS-5. and where en-
ployes have completed special
training programs for1higher jobs
conducted by the Civil Service
Commission. In the cases where
two-grade promotions are allowed,
the employees must have served at
least year in their present
grades, except in cases where they
were denoted or sepa-
rated in reduction force pro-
grams.
The various exemptions from
the temporary promotion restric-
tons are broad enough to insure
many deserving employees the right
to advance during the next year.
The restrictions went into effect
on Friday. They do not affect Fed
eral employees who were promoted
previous to that date.
GAO-General Accounting Of
fee employees are still annoyed by
the fact that they were not given
time off last Wednesday after
noon. along with other Govern
ment employees, to greet Princess
Elizabeth and the Duke of Edin-
burg. Adding insult to injury, Ma
tional Production Authority EN-
ployes who share the building with
the GAO workers were dismissed
for the day at pm, while GAO
employees had to remain on the
job.
y 4
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Tech
niques of Management" will be
discussed by the Society for Per-
sonnel Administration at 1880
pm. Tuesday in the Archives
Auditorium. The speaker will be
DR.. Eugene Jacobson of the Uni I
versity of Michigan's institute
for social research.