Evening star., 1955-02-14
Hoover Report
On nJobsUrges
'E|iteCorps'
New Top-LeveI Setul
Suggested in Wide
Personnel Overhaul
By Joseph Yosng

The Hoover Commission to-
day sent to Congress its long
awaited report containing wide
spread recommendations fo1
overhauling the Governments
personnel system.
Details of the proposals were
released last night by the group
headed by former President
Hoover and comprising a men,
bership of leaders in political
and private life.
The commission made the fol-
lowing proposals concerning the
Federal personnel service:
/. Establishment of Senior
Civil Service composed of po-
litically neutral, well-paid ca
reer administrators of exception
al experience for continuing
service in all departments and
agencies. This elite corps, which
would number about 5000 per-
sons, would receive salaries OF
$10.800 to $17,500 a year.
2. Creation of more non ca
reer politically appointed ex-
ecutives TO enable this group
to take over all political and
partisan tasks, including work
of that nature which many ca
reer executives now "are forced
to handle"
8. Modification of Government
layoff procedures to give more
job retention rights to nonvet-
eran career employees with Is or
more years of service.
4. Salary increases for the
Governments top executives,
both career and noncareer, as
a practical means of securing
and holding competent men in
public service.
S. More adequate and compre-
hensive training programs for
Government employees and ex-
ecutives.
6. Abolition of the Govern
ment's present performance
rating system and substitution
of a system that would report
only on those employees whose
work entities them to promotion
or commendation, or whose un-
satisfactory work merits dis
missal.
7. Greater use of prevailing
wages" in comparable Jobs in
private industry in setting pay
scales of Federal workers.
8. A new system of evaluating
jobs that should be placed out
side the \ merit system and
development of new criteria to
determine which jobs are of the
policy-making variety and there
fore should be excepted from the
merit system.
9. Extension of the civil service
merit system to cover United
States marshals' jobs, field Off
cials of the Bureau of Customs
and the United States Mint. Also.
the President should order an
end to political clearance in fill
ing rural letter carrier jobs.
10. Restriction of veterans ap-
peal rights in disInissals and
other adverse agency actions.
II. Simplification of the Clas-
sification Act whereby the first
six GS grades would be COM
bined into three grades, and GS-
7 to II would be combined into
three grades. This would not
reduce anybody's pay, but would
relieve the Civil Service Commits
sion Of much administrative pa
perwork in detailing the job re-
quirements between the various
grades. the Hoover group said.
IL. A reclassification of the
postal salary structure.
13. Overall Civil Service Com
mission supervision Of the sal
aries paid per diem tblue COL
lar) workers who are under wage
boards.
IA. A congressional review of
the so-called conflict of in
terests" regulations Ito deter
mine whether the intent Of such
laws can be better achieved by
other and more positive means
which would encourage rather
than discourage entry of compe-
tent men into public life"
Is. Greater Civil Service Com
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