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five-day forty-hour workweek where-
ever feasible.
Overtime Pay
The Federal Employees Pay A ct of
1945 superseded the War Overtime Pay
A ct of 1943. The new law, effective
July 1, 1945, establishes for the first
time a permanent policy that extra pay
shall be granted to salaried employees
for overtime service. Overtime is iden
tified as all work in excess o f 40 hours
a week, whether regularly scheduled or
worked irregularly or occasionally.
However, overtime service is not com
pensable if it is purely voluntary. Pay
ment is authorized only when overtime
work is “ officially ordered or approv
ed,” i.e., ordered in advance or approved
by the proper official after the work
is performed. The new law also makes
a sharp distinction between basic pay
and overtime pay and between basic
work periods and overtime service.
The basic annual rates under the
new law are payment for. fifty-tw o 40
hour basic workweeks. Hence, overtime
pay is calculated on an actual basis by
the week. The new law has thus
brought about an awareness o f what
part of an employee’s "tak e home”
compensation is pay for work during
a basic 40-hour week and what part is
pay for regular overtime service on the
sixth day (usually Saturday), or for
irregular or occasional overtime work
on other days.
Merit Increases
The Federal Employees Pay. A ct of
1945 shortens the previous waiting
periods of 18 and 30 months to 12 and
18 months, respectively. It provides
that after all the conditions of eligibility
have been met, the employee shall re
ceive the withiri-grade salarly advance
ment at the beginning of the following
pay period, rather than at the begin-*
ning o f the next quarter, as specified
in the prior law. It also permits an
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OREGON
AMERICAN
LUMBER
CORPORATION
Vernonia, Oregon
Manufacturers of
Old Growth Yellow
Fir Lumber
D.E.T. Uppers and
Commons