Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-02
Unemployment
Rights 10 Be
Strengthened
Displaced Federal
Career Workers to
Get More Priority

BY JOSEPH YOUNG

The Civil Service Commission
soon will issue new regulations
giving stronger JOB re-employ-
ment rights to Federal career
employees who lose their positions,
it was disclosed today by Repre-
sentative Broyhill, Republican of
Virginia.
Details of the program were
presented by csc Chairman
Philip Young in a letter to Mr..
Broyhill, who had strongly
sought such program.
The CSC'S new program will:
l. Require Federal agencies to
hire displaced career employees
certified to them by the csc,
unless the agency can give the
commission sufficient reason why
the displaced worker is not quail
flied for the job.
This represents great strides
over the present program,
whereby agencies need not state
sufficient reasons for rejecting
an employee.
TwO-Year Priority
2. Displaced career workers
will continue to receive Govern
ment-wide job hiring priority
over all others, but this priority
will be for two-year period in
stead of the present one-year
period. They also will have this
two-year priority in seeking re-
hiring in their own agencies.
Under the program, the agen-
cy in which an employee worked
before he was separated must
give him top reassignment rights
and separate nonstatus employees
if necessary to give the Dee a
Job.
If the agency does not have
any job available. the csc will
put the displaced careerist on
the top of its job register list
and certify his name to any
other Federal agency seeking to
fill the type of position for which
the Dee is qualified.
Notice to Agencies
In his letter to Mr.. Broyhill,
csc Chairman Young declared:
Briefs of employment his
tories of separated career en-
ployes will be circulated to all
agencies and agencies will be
directed to give bona f1de con-
sideration to such eligibles in
filling all vacancies in positions
for which they have filed with
the commission-including posi-
tons normally filled by nom
competitive exams"
csc officials said the COM
mission will enforce the new
rules strictly and that agency
hiring authority will be with
drawn if displaced career work
ers certified to an agency
are rejected without sufficient
reason.
The two-year unemployment
priority given to career employees
who lose their jobs in the future
will also apply to current jobless
career employees.
Mr.. Broyhill sponsored legis-
lation in the past Congress to
force agencies to hire displaced
career employees. The Virginian
said he had encountered many
cases of career workers who lost
their jobs in agency reduction
in-force or reorganization pro-
grams and were unable to find
other positions.
The csc said it is opposed
to legislation in dealing with
the problem.
However. csc Chairman Young
said that, in view of the problems
raised by Mr.. Broyhill in dealing
with displaced career employees,
the commission had decided to
revise its regulations and accom-
plish the objectives sought by Mr.
Broyhill through executive action
rather than by legislation.
Mr.. Young said there are only
1l9 displaced career employees in
this area now. Several years ago
in the Governments economy
program, thousands of Federal
careerists lost their jobs. There
are no figures available as to how
many. left town or took jobs in
private industry.
Mr.. Broyhill said his concern
is to prevent a recurrence OF
the unrest and economic hard
ships that occurred several years
ago.
Civil Service Commissioner
George Moore worked closely
with Mr.. Broyhill and others in
formulating the commissions new
program.