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civil service registers.
The 100000 indefinites who
would not be in line for perma-
nent status are those who did
not pass civil service exams, or
those who qualified under min
imum civil service standards but
who were hired on the spot by
their agencies without being
taken from civil service registers.
OF the 100000 employees ELI
gible for permanent status, not
all of them will get the status
at once. The csc plans call
for permanent status to be given
on the basis of seniority in Gov
eminent, plus the individual
agencies personnel requirements.
The granting of permanent sta
tus would be staggered over some
time.
One reason for this is to af-
ford as much job protection as
possible to non-veteran career
employees, who would have less
job retention rights than in
definites with veterans prefer
ence, who are converted to per-
manent status.
So far as the overall problem
of these non-veterans is con-
cerned, the csc feels it must be
resolved by congressional action
on veterans preference, rather
than continuation of the Whitten
rider. The riders repeal has
been approved by the Senate and
is now before the House Civil
Service Committee.
Regarding the 100000 indef-
mites who are not eligible for
permanent status, the commits
sion plans over a period of time
to give civil service exams so that
some Of these employees can quail
ify for eventual status.
PAY-The House Civil Service
Committee is scheduled to meet
Thursday in closed session on the
Federal classified and postal pay
raise bills.
Meanwhile, it is reported that
the House Republican leadership
has cautioned Republican men,
bers on the committee against |
voting too great q pay raise bill. |
The Republican leadership
wants a pay boost not too much
above the administrations pro-
posals.
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GROUP EALTH INSUR- |
ANCE. - The administrators |
plan for group health and medi-
cal insurance for Government
employees has run into all sorts
of snags. but administration Of
f1cials say they still hope to
send the plan to Congress this |
year. However, the proposal
doesn't appear to have much
chance for action this year.
Meanwhile. the administra-
tion's group life insurance plan
for Federal employees is due to
be sent to Congress this week. !
A last-minute legal check by the
Justice Department delayed the
effort to send the proposal to
Congress last week. incidentally.
Government employees will be
pleasantly surprised by the plan.
It's the most liberal group life
insurance proposal of its kind.
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TRAVELLING Senate yester-
day failed to get around to the
bill that would increase the
maximum daily travel allow
ances of Federal employees from
50 to $12. The bills sponsors
said they hoped that the Senate
would act on the bill next week
on the consent calendar.
NEW NAME-The Civil Serv-
ice Assembly of the United
States and Canada has voted
to change its name to the Public
Personnel Association. The
change in names. however, won't
become effective until January /,
1857 because of the organiza-
tion'S bylaws.
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HOOVER COMMISSION II
Representative Brown, Republi-
can, of Ohio, will discuss the
work of the new Hoover Commis-
sion at a luncheon of the
American Society for Public
Administration at 1890 pm.
tomorrow in the Willard Hotel. |
Mr.. Brown is author of the legis-
lation creating the commission
and is member of the group.
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