CERTAIN ASPECTS OF THE AMENABILITY OF WOC TO THE FEDERAL EMPLOYEE COMPENSATION ACT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP59-00882R000200350038-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 11, 2001
• Sequence Number: 38
• Publication Date: September 11, 1955
• Content Type: MF

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Certain A6pec t rbE x e zmurwn 'iity ~t : V
to -the '& =,erai liki- Jlcm eef; Co We ati2na Act
ns?-e:i '!e to ascertai niet ,a3- Cr not a ~ersont oervi w 11-a
h s Agency in a WOC caaeity is covered by the ledeTal Emp oyees Cct?gen-
sation Act (39 stat. 742, 5 0C 751 (1916)), as attended,: and, if 70,
the psis upon which u.eatii benefits, if any, would be paid..
As to whether or not a OC is cuveveu by t1 Act. ;:section Lt
of the 1949 amendments to the C'o pensat1cr Act (P.L. 357, Est Corig ,
_ t sess. (191+9)} proviaes, in relevant i+art, that the term employee
..=.nraludes
,' (L) persons rendering person," . bex i::es r_ 41e' sirs i
to those of civiliacc officers or employeel of the United
- 'v,a tes to any uepai nv iit, inUoj. .i ie~ v es ;fish: .nt, or
a ;peach C.hereo (incladit ins iil_1Toen~iaiitids of the United
0ya es wholly uwnea uy it j, wM out conWeq ,ation. or for
ccm MI coupensatiou, in any Oaie iea whic} acceptance
use of such sere iue: :i a;;.,bicrized by 3n Act of Congress
in which provision is wade a;y IzLw for }payment of the
1f
'rave:i or titre: exlenses aui --4c a person;
7-1, .Is appears as section +e of the A?rt. xou wi; l observe that there arts
=certain conditiorus which must be fulfilled in order;. that a WOC may oe
,.!ceveced by the Act. First, he musk be rendering a rersan$l service of
inri similar to (that) of civilian o ricers ore to ee of the nit
States. This particular piar re is given no attention in either the
House Report on the bill (H. 1,ep. P-c. 729, 81st Corgi., 1st Sess. (1.949))
cr-., the Senate Report (Senate hep. Slat. Cot7g. , 1st Seas. (j949)) o
`ru its "ace it would seem to u u c wte i i i eljr ..=t tae service rendered
must be similar, and emphazj.izk the word Similar, to services nori rally
rendered by some full-tittle ti,ie::r eitL s: ayoyee or gn 1oyees. This inter-
pretation has been clu-,eked with a tr. ,41iddleton, Deputy Director o." the
Bureau of i rployees Cc r rensatio, (rode 77, extenstion 1395). He t.grees
s1 also attributes no ix,ruicula.r ~gr~if_ieance to the phrase other than
the plain meaning of i iargruR.a.Je. Se _o ad, the us of the service must be