Evening star., 1953-09-08
Civil Service Threatens to Bar
Pay for Indefinite Workers
In Drive to Rehire Coreerists
Get Tough Policy
Seeks to Find Jobs
For Those Fired
By Joseph Young

today announced it would take
drastic new measures to find
jobs for displaced Federal Ca
reer workers, including such
steps as requesting the Con-
troller General to stop the pay
of temporary indefinite workers
who occupy positions that could
be filled by the careeriSts.
Prodded into action by sharp
criticism of the tagging dis
placed career worker program by
Chairman ReeS of the House
Civil Service Committee, the
csc said it would also take
these additional steps:
l. Withdraw from all agencies
who do not cooperate in the
program, the right to promote,
denote. or reassign indefinite
employees.
2. Reduce to 80 days-during
which career worker caught in
a observation-disclosures is still on
the rolls-the time allowed to
agencies to survey their own
bureaus to make a place for him
in a continuing job which is
vacant or held by an indefinite
employe. Until now, agencies
were allowed go days in which
to make these surveys.
8. Grant authority to agencies
to fire voluntarily any indefinite
employees for the purposes of
hiring jobless career workers.
Under this authority, agencies
would not have to wait for actual
displacement orders from the
commission before firing the in
defnites.
Closer Cooperation Promised.
csc officials said they met
several days ago with officials of
all agencies and departments
and were promised closer CO.
operation in the program than
was given in the past.
The CSC said, however, that if
this cooperation is not forth
coming it will not hesitate to
use the new measures announced
today.
The csc said it has the au-
thority to require the Controller
General to stop the salary of any
temporary-indef1nite worker it
feels is holding a job that could
be occupied by a jobless career
employe. This would force an
agency to get rid of the tempo
rary-indef1nite employe, the csc
pointed out.
Also the denial of the right to
promote, denote and reassign
temporary-indefinite employees in
an agency if the bureau does not
cooperate, will help bring the
agencies in line, the csc feels.
The commission said it has
referred 400 separated career
workers to various Federal
agencies for placement. The
CSC did not report, however,
how many of these employees
were given jobs.
4O6 Considered for New Jobs.
In addition, 406 displaced
career workers now are being
considered for new jobs. There
are another 385 displaced career
lists who have applied to the
commission for help, but who
are not eligible for displacement
consideration. The csc said
these employees either were sep
arated from positions outside
civil service or their lowest ac-
ceptable salary exceeds the sal
airy of the grade at which they
are eligible to displace indefinite
employees.
The main fault of the Com
missions displaced career en-
ploye program thus far has been
the failure of the various agen-
cies to cooperate. In many
instances, the agencies have re-
fused to employ the workers re-
ferred to them by the commits
sion and the csc has done
nothing about il.
Officials Expect Results.
Commission officials say they
feel the new steps announced
today will do the trick. They
declare that their get tough"
policy will get results.
Commenting on the commits
sion's new regulations, Repre-
sentative Rees said: "It is a real
step forward if it is carried out
with as much enthusiasm as it
has been launched"
The Kansas Republican said
that not only should the new
program secure jobs for all dis
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