WEEKS BRING PAY RAISE OPTIMISM AND PLAN FOR OMNIBUS BILL

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 30, 2003
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• Publication Date: September 4, 1963
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the Cuban economy, despite a
suppoosed Castro - Khrushchev
agreement on Soviet aid and
Mr. Khrushchev's "advice"-as
revealed by Mr. Castro upon
Cuban line on the treaty
changed almost overnight. On
August 16, Havana radio re-
ported that the "Cuban Move-
ment for Peace an the Sover-
eignty of Peoples" had held a
THE FEDERAL SPOTLIGHT
Weeks Bring Pay Raise Optimism
And Plan for Omnibus Bill
By JOSEPH YOUNG
Star Staff Waiter
Returning after a three-week
vacation, this reporter finds
Federal pay raise optimism
running strong among employe
leaders and their key support-
era In Congress.
The House Democratic lead-
ership reportedly has given its
blessing to the House Civil
Service Committee to wrap up
in one omnibus bill pay raises
for Federal classified and postal
workers, members of Congress,
political executives such as
cabinet officers, agency heads,
etc., and members of the
judiciary.
Chairman Celler of the House
Judiciary Committee, which
normally would handle pay
raise legislation for members of
Congress and the judiciary, re-
portedly feels that his group
civil rights legislation to have CATCHING UP-Here are buildings will be encouraged to mum-security retention rooms.
time for Congressional and highlights of other employe pool their resources to set up
judicial pay raises. However, developments during the past better health clinics.
few weeks: LEVEL OF COMPETENCE-
reeabl
Mr
Geller is re
orted a
.
p
g
e
to have the House Civil Service
Committee handle this phase of
the legislation along with the
other pay raises. All this has
the support of the House Demo-
cratit leadership.
Thus tied up in one package
in an omnibus pay bill, with the
support of the House Democrat-
ic leadership, the pay raise leg-
islation's prospects continue to
improve. This is because raises
for any one group is depend-
ent on that of the others. For
example, Federal classified and
postal employe raises depend
to a large extent as to wheth-
er Congressional and Execu-
tive Act pay is raised.
On the Senate side, where
today the Senate Civil Service
Committee starts pay hearings,
the situation will be handled
somewhat differently. But the
outlook there, too, is promising.
The Senate Civil Service
Committee will handle Federal
classified and postal employe
pay raise legislation along with
that of Executive Act salaries
for top Government political
appointees.
The Senate Judiciary Com-
mittee will handle pay raise leg-
ate floor when they are respec-
tively reported by the Senate
Civil Service Committee and
the Senate Judiciary Commit-
tee.
Pay raise enactment is by
no means assured. An economy
bloc in the Congress can be
expected to fight it on the
and th t raises re ill-
io s a a
Communists and newer Cas- he old-guard Communists to , rresia t
troite Communists is more ob- ! a group of Latin American Ito proclaim
scure. visitors. the Comm
There are no signs of an Guevara's Role that time
actual organized struggle or
of any threat to Mr. Castro's Mr. Guevara, as chief ideol-
to the Federal employe health
insurance program.
The Budget Bureau is now
drafting regulations that will
give Federal agencies the go-
ahead to offer employes many
new health services on the
ground that they will reduce
absenteeism, increase produc-
tivity and benefit management.
g
It will provide for a wide
advised in a year when Con-
gress is being asked, to cut1 range of services, such a periodic
Federal income taxes.
physical exams, inoculations
against contagious diseases.
and Senate leadership appar- !more modern and expanded
ently have lent their full sup- health clinics, emergency treat-
port to the pay raise legislation' ment, etc.
for all segments of Govern- Employes will be referred to
ment -including members of private doctors for care and
Congress and the judiciary - treatment and the agencies will
make prospects much brighter check up to make sure those
than they were a month or two who need it go to them for
i ogist of the Cuban revolution,
has always espoused violent
"Chinese" tactics of guerrilla
warfare in the Latin American
countryside.
In domestic Cuban matters,
Mr. Guevara is responsible for
much of Cuban industrial plan-
ning, and would lose power with
any wholesale switch back to
sole concentration on Cuban
agriculture. This means sugar.
The current Soviet doctrine-
,as expressed by Mr. Khrushchev
to Mr. Castro-calls for an "in-
ternational Socialist division of
labor." Each member of the
"Socialist camp" should develop
along lines for which it is "na-
turally" suited.
In the Cuban case, Mr. Castro
and his lieutenants have shown
during the past three months
that this division means raising
Cuban sugar production from
its present disastrously low level
of 3.8 million tons.
After this level is raised, so the argument goes, Cuba will
better be able to afford the in-
dustralization which the Rus-
sians cannot give them. I
Glass Blocks Okay
LOS ANGELES.-Glass-block
ago. * * * treatment. Also, agencies oc- ; panels meet the California
FORCED RESIGNATIONS-
The Civil Service Commission
is drafting a set of rules to
guide its board of appeals in
John McCart, operations direc-
tor of the AFL-CIO Govern-
ment Employe Council, in testi-
mony before the House Civil
judging Federal employe ap-'Service Committee has asked i
peals against forced resigna- repeal of the controversial.
tions. It now has no rules on! "level of competence" provision
the subject. of last year's Federal pay re-
The decision to issue regula- form law.
tions was prompted by a recent I Testifying in favor of add!-
Federal district court decision tional Government and Postal
in the Parocazy case. The court employe payt raises, Mr. McCart
voided the resignation of the emphasized as part of the,
employe who was given a re- pay raise bill Congress should
sign -or-be - fired ultimatum repeal the provision which re-
with no time to consider his quires Federal classified em-
decision. It was the first time ployes to maintain an "ac-
that a Federal court had ruled ceptable level of competence"
in favor of a Government em- !in order to get their periodic
ploye who contended he had within-grade pay raises. Mr.
been forced to resign. McCart urged the committee to
substitute instead the previous
As a result, the CSC will;
,requirement that a satisfactory
i
ifi
l
f
ssue spec
c ru
es
or agencies
to follow concerning personnel
actions of an involuntary na-
ture, with safeguards provided
for employes against being
performance rating-which, in-
cidentally, is received by more
than 99 per cent of all cm-
ployes-be all that's necessary
for an employe to rec
i
e
ve a
pressured to resign against within-grade pay raise.
their will and with definite Mr. McCart stressed that
rules for agencies to adhere to. ~ under the new provision em-
Attorney General Robert Ken- ployes have no appeal rights.
nedy has asked the CSC to Furthermore, the Civil Service
adopt a uniform policy in this Commission, which slipped the
regard for protecting employes'??,,,,,-,
rights
o m
f
'
i
embe o o
Con- I
gress and the judiciary. NEW HEALTH PROGRAM---
Here, too, this arrangemPr c ^'he Government soon is ex-
has the support of the dnateI pected to provide major new
Democratic leader-,hip. The I preventive health and medical
plan reportedly is for the two services for its employes. These
pay reform law without on-
gress even being aware o Cf its
.,P?it. never has defined satis-
factorily what "acceptable level
of competence" is supposed to;
be.
vier Earning Ozur,, 0Ir Ountng 'tar
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