Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-25
ThousandsGet
Civil Service
job Security
Career Status Given
Those Hired During
Korean War Period
BY JOSEPH YOUNG

The Civil Service Commission
today issued new regulations.
effective July /, which will give
permanent career status to thou
sands of Federal workers.
The employees involved are
those who have been filling posi-
tions vacated by workers who
transferred to the defense and
security agencies during the Ko-
rean war and afterward.
Since 1850 the employees who
transferred to Federal jobs es-
sential to defense have had re-
employment rights to their old
jobs and their requirements have
been denied the right to career
status and were subject to re-
placement at any time.
The CSC'S new regulations end
the unemployment rights for
employees who transferred to de-
tense agencies. These workers
will have a period of six months
in which to exercise their re-
employment rights. At the end
of that time. their re-employ-
ment rights will be abolished.
However, very few Of these
workers are expected to return
to their old jobs, since most of
them are making higher salaries
in their present positions. In
fact, that is why most of them
transferred in the first place
during the Korean war.
Security for Thousands
This will result in giving per-
manent job security to the
thousands Of employees who re-
placed them. Until now these
employees have not been given
any permanent claim to these
Jobs. nor have they been able to
count their years of service in
these positions towards secur-
ing career status.
Under the new regulations,
these employees will be allowed to
count the years they spent in
the jobs for career-Status pur-
poses. This will result in career
status for most of them, since
1t only requires three years of
service to qualify for career
status and most of them have
put at least that much time in
the jobs. For those with less
than three years of service in
the jobs, the time they already
have spent will be counted to-
ward the three-year require
ment.
For those employees who ale
ready had enough years Of service
previous to the Korean war toI
qualify for career status, the
CSC's new program will give
them permanent rights to the
job in that they no longer will
be subject to displacements. This
protection against displacement
also will apply to employees re-
ceiving career status for the first
time as result of the new order.
Standby Program Set Up
The commissions new program
also sets up a standby program
in the event of critical emer-
gency situations.
Employees will be allowed to
transfer to defense and security
agencies with unemployment
rights if the csc determines that
the job they will fill is "immedi-
ately essential to the national
security" Even then, the en-
ployes' unemployment rights
will expire after two years.
Until now, employees who had
transferred to defense and re-
lated security bureaus had I'M
limited unemployment rights,
provided they lost their jobs in
a observation-disclosures program. In
its move to abolish these re-em-
ployment rights in six months
time, the csc is giving these en-
ployes the right to take their old
Jobs back whether they are laid
of or whether they merely want
to return to their old positions.
The csc said it expects very
few of these workers to return
to their old jobs, thus clearing
the way for career status and
much greater job security for
the thousands of employees who
have replaced them in their old
inhS since 1oEn