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employee with a "G ood,” or fully satis
factory, efficiency rating to advance
periodically to the maximum rate of
the grade. Under the prior law, a rat
ing higher than "G ood,” or fully satis
factory, was required to advance be
yond the middle rate of the grade.
Finally, it amends the periodic within-
grade advancement plan to make sure
that when a veteran is reemployed in
the federal service under any applicable
authority of law or civil service regu
lation, he will receive credit under the
within-grade salary advancement law
for his military service, and that he
will not lose any within-grade salary
advancements because o f his absence
in the military service. The same amend
ment applies to those who left their
positions to serve in the Merchant Mar
ine or on war transfer, as defined by
the Civil Service Commission.
Previous law permitted, within any
one waiting period, one additional with
in grade salary advancement for "es
pecially meritorious” service. There was
no method o f rewarding sustained su
perior performance unless it was so
outstandingly distinctive as to be classed
as "especially meritorious.” O f the ap
proximately 1,220,000 employees in
volved, only 950 received such within-
grade salary advancements in the fiscal
year in 1942; only 1,575 in the fiscal
year 1943; and only 808 in the fiscal
year 1944.
The new law authorizes one w i t h i n -
grade salary advancement for superior
accomplishment, in addition to any per
iodic increase, within any one waiting
period under standards to be promul
gated by the Civil Service Commission.
Minimum or H iring Kates
The law, until Ju ly 1, 1945, fixed
the minimum rate of the grade as the
minimum or hiring rate for each class of
positions in the grade. The one excep
tion of this general rule, authorized in
section 8 o f the W ar Overtime Pay A ct
o f 1943, and mentioned below, was of
too limited a scope to change the gen
eral situation.
The Classification A ct already pro
vided, in accordance with standard po
sition-classification practice, for the
subdivision of grades into classes by the
Civil Service Commission, according to
the duties and responsibilities of posi
tions. The new law adds to this author
ity the power to establish for any such
class a minimum rate higher than the
minimum rate of the grade. The new
minimum rate, which will apply both
to present employees in that class and
to new appointees, must be one of the
standard rates o f the grade, and must
not exceed the middle rate o f the es
tablished statutory salary range for the
grade. Furthermore, this action is to be
taken only upon a finding o f the Com
mission that it is warranted by the na
ture of the duties and responsiblities of
OREGON CULVERT &
PIPE COMPANY
Concrete Culvert, Sewer, Irrigation Overhead Pressure
Sprinkler Systems, Corrugated Pipe and Multi-Plate
(When restrictions are removed)
Lancaster 4 1 4 5
2321 S.E. Gladstone
Portland, Oregon
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