Substitution of graduate study for experience Graduate study, which is fully equivalent to the requirements for a master's degree in a physical science, mathematics, or engineering, or in public or business administration successfully completed at an accredited college or university, may be substituted for 1 year of general experience. A Ph. D. degree in physical science, mathematics, or engineering at an accredited college or university may be substituted for 2 years of the general experience for the P-4 grade. Graduate study may not be substituted for any part of the prescribed administrative experience for any grade. Part-time or unpaid experience Credit will be given for all valuable experience of the type required, regardless of whether compensation was received or whether the experience was gained in a part-time or full-time occupation. Part-time or unpaid experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities. Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and tne number of hours spent a week in such employment. CITIZENSHIP, AGE, AND PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS Applicants must be citizens of or owe allegiance to the United States. Applicants must not have passed their sixty-second birthday on the date of filing application. This age limit does not apply to persons entitled to veteran preference. The age limit will be waived for war-service-indefinite employees who on the date of filing application are serving in positions which would be filled from the eligible register resulting from this examination, and who could normally be expected to have completed 15 years of Federal service by their seventieth birthday. The age limit will also be waived for war-service-indefinite employees who on the date of filing application are serving in positions which would be filled from the eligible register resulting from this examination and who could not be expected to have completed 15 years of Federal service by their seventieth birthday. However, the names of eligible war-service-indefinite employees in the latter group will be entered on supplemental lists which will be used only after all other eligibles have been given appropriate consideration. An eligible on the supplemental list may be accorded a competitive status only in the position he held on the date of filing application, or one of lower grade for which the list is appropriate. The duties of the positions require light physical exertion involving work which is supervisory and sedentary in nature; however, applicants must be able to travel to points within their duty area by means of public conveyances with reasonable ease. Amputation or disability of arm, hand, leg, or foot will not necessarily disqualify an applicant for appointment. Vision, with or without glasses, must be sufficiently acute, and hearing, with or without a hearing aid, must be acute for the conversational voice, to permit the applicant to render satisfactory services. Any physical condition which would cause tne applicant to be a nazard to himself or others or which would prevent efficient performance of the duties of the position, will disqualify for appointment. A physical examination will be made by a Federal medical officer before appointment. Persons who are offered appointment must pay their own expenses in reporting for duty. If, upon reporting at the place of assignment, they are found ineligible because of physical defects, they cannot be appointed and no part of their expenses in returning home can be paid by the Government. BASIS OF RATING No written examination is required. A preliminary review will be made of the training and experience of each applicant as described in his application form. After this review has been made, applicants will be notified as to whether they meet the basic requirements outlined in this circular. As vacancies occur, the qualifications of the applicants who meet the basic requirements will be evaluated in relation to specific positions to be filled. At such time confidential inquiries, involving contacts with the applicant's supervisors or associates, may be made regarding his experience record, and supplemental information may be requested from the applicant. Each competitor will be rated for the grades or salary levels which he will accept and for which he is qualified. In no case will an applicant be given a rating in any grade for which the compensation is less than the minimum acceptable salary as stated in his application. REGISTERS TO BE ESTABLISHED Separate registers or lists of eligible competitors will be established for each grade and field of specialization. Vacancies in these positions (in the States shown in location of positions paragraph) and in related positions (in the Seventh United States Civil Service region only), requiring similar qualifications of approximately the same rate of pay will be filled as a result of this examination, except where an examination is announced by a Board of United States Civil Service Examiners or by the central office of the Commission to fill such field positions in a specific, or in specific agencies, or where it is in the interest of the service to fill such position by reinstatement, promotion, or transfer. Certification to fill vacancies will be made from among those who have expressed willingness to accept employment at the places offered. SALARY AND WORKWEEK Salary is based on the standard Federal workweek of 40 hours. Additional compensation is provided for any authorized overtime in excess of the 40-hour week. The salary range for each grade of these positions is given below. For employees whose services meet prescribed standards of efficiency, the entrance salary is increased by the amount shown in the table following the completion of each 18 months of service, until the maximum rate for the grade is reached. A Federal employee serving in a position in the competitive civil service at a salary above the basic entrance salary for the position in which he is appointed or classified from this examination, may continue to be paid at his current salary rate if it is not beyond the maximum salary for the position in which he is so appointed or classified. All basic salaries are subject to a deduction of 6 percent for retirement benefits. GENERAL INFORMATION Appointments. Appointments for entry into the service in these positions will be made subject to investigation and will be probational unless otherwise limited. Probational appointments become permanent upon satisfactory completion of a probationary period of 1 year. Sex.-The department or office requesting certification of eligibles has the legal right to specify the sex desired. Fingerprinting.-Fingerprints will be taken of all persons appointed from this examination. No fee charged.-Appointments to Federal positions which are subject to the Civil Service rules are made through the Civil Service Commission. It is not necessary to secure the services of a private employment agency in order to obtain Federal employment. Veteran preference.-Preference benefits based upon honorable separation from the armed forces are given under certain conditions in competitive examination for original appointment. 1. Five points are added to the earned ratings of the applicant who establishes claim to preference based on his or her own active service in the armed forces of the United States during any war or in any creditable campaign or expedition. 2. Ten points are added to the earned ratings of applicants who establish a claim to preference as (a) a disabled veteran; (b) the wife of a disabled veteran who is disqualified for appointment because of his service-connected disability; (c) the widow (who has not remarried) of a deceased ex-serviceman who served in the armed forces of the United States on active duty during any war or in any creditable campaign or expedition; or (d) the widowed, divorced, or separated mother of certain deceased or disabled ex-service sons or daughters. Veterans claiming 5-point preference based on wartime military service are not required to furnish proof of honorable separation until the time of appointment. All other preference applicants should file Form 14, together with the documentary proof specified therein, at the time of filing application Form 57. TRANSFER OF ELIGIBILITY Eligibility in an examination under this announcement may, under certain circumstances, be transferred to a register for the same position maintained by a different office of the Commission. Eligibility may not be transferred, however, to any register resulting from an examination announcement that closed prior to the issue date of this announcement. Examination standards in different civil-service offices may sometimes vary because of differences in labor market conditions in the areas served by such offices. For this reason, the transfer of eligibility may be subject to a reexamination or a reevaluation of the eligible's qualifications in terms of the standards used by the office to which transfer of eligibility is desired. 1. Form 57: Be sure to show the title of the examination, the number of the examining circular (No. EC-7–14–1 (1949)), and the lowest salary you are willing to accept. In order that proper evaluation may be given to your qualifications as related to these positions, it is important that you submit in detail a description of your experience showing clearly (a) the type, scope, extent, and responsibility of the administrative work performed and the fields of science or engineering administered, and (b) similar details concerning other scientific or engineering work performed. 2. A list of all college courses completed, showing for each course the descriptive title, the number of semester hours of credit received, and the approximate date of completion, if you are offering college courses to meet the basic requirements. 3. Card form 5001-ABC. 4. Form 14, with the documentary proof required therein, if you are claiming veteran preference and if the form is required in your case (see Veteran preference" above). Where to get forms The forms listed above may be obtained from any first- or second-class post office or the Board of United States Civil Service Examiners, Great Lakes, Ill., except in regional headquarters cities, where the forms must be obtained from the United States Civil Service regional offices (see list below). Where and when to file Send application to the Board of United States Civil Service Examiners, Great Lakes, Ill. Applications will be accepted until further notice but persons who wish to receive early consideration should have their applications on file not later than May 25, 1949. Sixth region... Eighth region_ Tenth region_. United States Civil Service regional offices Post Office and Courthouse Building, Cincinnati 2, Ohio. Post Office and Customhouse Building, St. Paul 1, Minn. Mr. BRAWLEY. Charles Mahone. STATEMENT OF CHARLES EDWARD MAHONE, WASHINGTON, D. C. Mr. MAHONE. Mr. Chairman, my name is Charles Edward Mahone, Sr., pay-roll clerk, Naval Gun Factory. I am here to endorse S. 559 pay raise, the bill to reclassify employees. I am a pay-roll clerk in the Naval Gun Factory. I am the one that sends the first record to the General Accounting Office of money that is paid out each pay day, which at the Naval Gun Factory is each Thursday for the per diem employees, and every other Friday for the annual employees. Now I, too, am classed under the classification board at CAF-3, which I definitely think requires a higher grade than that. An incident occurred about March. I was a CAF-3 and there was a vacancy which occurred at a CAF-4 level which I made formal application for, and was turned down, and the result was they gave it to a CAF-2 clerk, promoted her over me, in other words. Now the reason was that I had not been there long enough. I have been on my present job for about 15 months and I had previously gone into this position with two and a half years of accounting at Howard University. I was a permanent employee. The other employee had not served her probationary period, so that is one reason I am here to endorse the reclassification act. The average rank and file employee with a family stays in debt, borrows money here in Washington from small loan agencies because the other financial agencies say that we are bad credit risks to loan money to because we have not got enough to pay it back. We have to buy clothes and all other necessities for my house on installments. That keeps me further in debt. My family consists of 3 children and my wife. My expenses are almost equal to my income. I was fortunate enough to get a house under the GI Bill of Rights. I pay $51.65 a month note on the home. Food runs approximately $50. My bills in department stores for buying clothes and shoes on installment runs me $19.06 a month, fuel approximately $20, insurance $7.22, gas and light $6, and repayment on a small loan to an agency $18.80, and transportation $5, which is a total of $181.67. My income is $186.08. That leaves me $8.41 for luxuries, medicine, cigarettes and what-not. This is also true of quite a few veterans. I talked to them. I am here on my own and nobody else, but I have talked to other veterans and they say they are confronted with the same situation, so I would think that it definitely would add to the efficiency of Government if you would give the rank-and-file employees a raise, and any raise granted should be a flat across-the-board increase and it should be in the form of an amendment to the Reclassification Act. Now as you can very well see, $8.41 for a family of five does not provide for any recreation whatsoever. Recently my wife was sick. I had to send her to one of the free hospitals. I was sick and I am still sick. I have ulcers of the stomach. The doctor advised a rest. cannot afford it. I have to keep working. Now if I had not been fortunate enough to buy my home-a lot of people said, "Why did you try to buy a house?" I bought my home. I did not need a down payment. The lending agency loaned me money to pay for it, and my note, which includes my tax and my insurance, is much less than I could rent an apartment house for to accommodate 5 people. Mr. BRAWLEY. You certainly are not paying an excessive rent. Mr. MAHONE. I might say also in connection with the sick leave that was debated awhile ago, the average employee carries over half of his leave each year. The average Government employee, if he stays in service say 10 years, has 90 days' sick leave accumulated. No one abuses it. As was said, some of them will use the "pay day leave" on Monday, but the bulk of them do not. Mr. BRAWLEY. Is there anything else you would like to say for the record? Mr. MAHONE. No. I would like to point out that I do not see why the change of efficiency ratings was injected into the bill also. I mean either a person is satisfactory or unsatisfactory. Mr. BRAWLEY. In other words, you endorse the change in the present efficiency rating system. Thank you very much. Mr. Richard Baisch. STATEMENT OF RICHARD BAISCH, WASHINGTON, D. C. Mr. BAISCH. Mr. Chairman, my name is Richard Baisch. I am a machinist. I served 4 years apprenticeship 33 years ago, and I am a journeyman for 29 years. My rating is CPC-6, and I have reached the top of my grade at a salary of $3,250 per annum. I had over 17 years of Government service. I represent Lodge 1060 of the American Federation of Government Employees. Under the present administration bill I would receive an increase of $30, which would be one and a half cents per hour. The American Federation of Government Employees is affiliated to the American Federation of Labor. This lodge consists of maintenance mechanics in the Public Buildings Administration. We mechanics come under the Classification Act of 1923 as amended and we are also under the present administration bill as such. We mechanics under the crafts, protective and custodial schedule in the Public Buildings Administration seem to be the only forgotten craftsmen in the whole Federal Government service as far as I know. We would rather come under the wage board, for we feel that we are entitled to the principle of equal pay for substantially equal work, in comparison with other Government employees and outside mechanics. At a joint meeting with other lodges of Federal mechanics of the Public Buildings Administration a resolution was unanimously adopted to instruct the national president, Mr. Yaden, to do all in his power to have Federal mechanics in Public Buildings Administration removed from the custodial schedule and put under a wage board. We would appreciate it if such an amendment would be added to the present administration bill, for Federal mechanics have tried to get this for the last 10 years. In doing so we would have more satisfactory conditions for those mechanics. We also could serve our Government better without adding cost to the Government. |