Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-14


Chairman Murray has writ
Commission asking it to draft
recommendations made.
The 25-member committee
a report which contained a blue
print for widespread changes il
THE Governments personne
system
The committee feels the time
ito act is now when the report il
still fresh in Congress mind.
| Among the committees pro
iposals that would require leg
islation are equal appeal right:
for non-veteran employees, Z
new civil service law giving thu
Civil Service Commission more
legal authority and power II
dealing with Federal agencies.
new staggered system of six
year terms for the three Csc
commissioners
| Also new financing of The
|civil service retirement system
establishment of a new nine
member Board of Appeals anc
Review within the csc tt
Expedite appeals and simplifica'
Ition of the Classification Act by
reducing the 10000 types of iok
classification titles and stand
ards to about 800 benchmarE
standards.
Mr.. Murray also instructed thu
csc to inform his committee o.
what steps the commission plan
to put into effect on those rec
Concentrations which do not re
Iquire legislation.
The committee proposed con
siderable internal reorganization
| in the csc, establishment O
permanent unemployment list
the csc of displaced career
employees and a resultant per
sonnet freeze in other agencies
when q bureau undergoeS
reduction in-force program, 81
that the separated employees car
be rehired speedily: abolition O.
/ the present system which ha:
| the csc chairman serve as tht
Presidents personnel adviser
and the curbing of the power o.
1.-THE CSC's executive director ant
the transfer of some of this au'
ithority to the two csc associate
commissioners and various CSC
bureau heads.
j csc Chairman Philip Youne
already has indicated his oppo'
sition to some of the HOUSE
groups proposals for interna
changes, particularly to ending
his ties with the White House.
i However, in the case of the
committees proposals which re-
quire legislation, it will be up tt
Congress and not the csc t.
decide.
/ EARLIER RETIREMENT -
Senator Butler, Republican O.
Maryland, today sponsored legis'
Ilation to allow Federal employees
with Is years or more service
the option of retiring at full an
Enuities, regardless of age. Tit
Eemploye would suffer no t1nan
fcial penalty in retiring, undel
terms of the Butler bill.
Senator Buffers measure alst
provides for an increase in an
nuities to retired Federal work
Iers every time present Govern
ment employees get a pay raise
The amount of the annuity in
crease would be tied to thu
amount of the pay raise.
* II Il
PRAISE-At Interiors awards
ceremony. Secretary Mckay de-
clared: Having been in a posi-.
ton to assess the relative merit:
of employees both in Government
and private industry, it is my
conviction that the career civi
service employe possesses equal
if not greater, capability thar
his counterpart outside Govern
|ment."
j When Mr.. Mckay, a former
Oregon auto dealer, first entered
the Government three years ago
his opinion of Federal workers
was somewhat on the dubiou:
side. But working alongside
them the past three years has
Ichanged his opinion, the same
as it has many other business.
men who have been serving the
; Eisenhower administration.
X X X x
E T TIC S - Representative
Rhodes, Democrat of Pennsyl-
wanna. has been appointed chair
man of a House Civil Service
Subcommittee to consider severa,
House resolutions enacting g
code of ethics for Federal en-
ployes. The resolutions prescribe
Ia mode of conduct for Fedora
workers aimed at insuring loyalty
ito God and country, conscien.
tious work, freedom from any
conflict of interest and opposi-