Evening star., 1954-09-22

eer-conditional program is
| scheduled to 60 into operation
about December Is. President
Eisenhower is expected to sign the
executive order around October
Is, and it will take another 60
days for the Commission to put
! the program into operation.
Indefinite employees who passed
| competitive exams and were
selected from civil service reg
listers will be placed under civil
service retirement, whether they
receive career or career-condi-
tional appointments.
Career appointments will be
given to these indefinites who
have three years of continuous
Government service. The other
indefinites who passed exams
will receive career-conditional
appointments and will auto
maticAly obtain career appoint
ments once they complete three
years of continual Federal serv-
ice.
Indefinite employees now have
per cent of the first $4,000 of
their salaries deducted for social
security. Under civil service re-
tirement, they will contribute 6
per cent Of then" salaries.
All indefinite workers receiv-
ing career OF career-conditional
appointments will automatically
be covered under civil service
retirement. They will not have
the /, choice of remaining under
social security. The csc has the
authority to bring these employees
under civil service retirement
without the need of additional
legislation by Congress.
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CONTINUOUS SERvICE-The
three years of continuous serv-
ice required by the csc need not
have been spent in any one Gov
ernment job or any one agency.
AS long as an employe started
his Federal service in a COM
petitive tcivil service) job and
completes three years of service
without more than a 30-day
break. he or she will have met
the three years cor tiriuols serv-
ice ieQ,aremelik hzEhes }eanploye
will still qualify as long as he or
she served, under an appoint
ment leading to status at some
time during this continuous
block of service.
Also, as long as an employe
started his Federal service in a
competitive job, the interim time
he may haves served In an tx
cepted job or in a legislative or
judicial position or in the Mill
tary service, will also be counted
toward the three-year period of
service. ~g,
Former career employees who
left the Government before 1850,
when the Whitten rider went
into effect, and were reinstated
with only indefinite status, will
also be eligible for career and
career conditional status. Those
with less than three years of
Federal service will receive ca
reer conditional appointments,
while those with three or more
continuous years will receive ca
reer appointments.
Career appointments may be |
given by the csc at any time to
compensably disabled veterans
who have passed competitive
exams, with the three-year re-
quirement being waived.
In the case of employees who
were separated from the Gov
ernment through no fault of
their own MISUNDERSTANDING,
etc., the commission has the |
discretion to extend the 30-day |
break in service feature in order |
that the employe may qualify |
under the three-year continuous
service provision.
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PRESENT PERMANENT EN-
PLOYES-Present employees with |
permanent status will not be
affected by the new program,
except that permanent status
will henceforth be known as ca
reer status. x |
OTHER INDEFINITES-Those
indefinite employees who were not
selected from civil service regis
ters will be given special oppor-