HERE ARE BILLS CONGRESS PASSED AFFECTING GOVERNMENT EMPLOYES

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 13, 2004
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• Publication Date: October 28, 1965
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By JOSEPH YOUNG expenses, thus permitting the
Star Starr Writer Appropriations; , Committee to
This session ' of Congress authorize such expenses as may
proved to be a very productive be justified by the Civil Service
. one for government'- employes as Commission each year.
the following list of bills shows. -TOURS, OF WORK - Public
In several cases neither the Law 89-116, approved Aug. 9,
h public law, section number nor establishes a? five-day workweek
I the date of presidential sigrdng; for postmasters: The act 'also
is;'shown but President Johnson permits the basic salary of
is? certain . to sign them within postmasters in fourth-class post
the next fw days. offices to be' readjusted on a
:Heading the list approved by calendar-year basis instead of a
Congress were bills providing fiscal-year basis.'
for pay raises anti,, annuity PERSONNEL CEILING -
increases. But there Were other Public Law 89-114, - approved
significant' benefits. enacted) Aug. 6, 1965, exempts the Postal
including fringe benefits such as rield Service from section 1310
severance w pay and ? larger, of the Supplemental Appropria-
uniform allowances. tion Act. 1952. This act exempts
. CLAIMS'- Public Law 89-185, permanent personnel of the
approved Sept. 15, amends titles postal field service ? from the
i0 and 14, U.S: Code, and the
Military Personnel and Civilian ceiling on the number of perma
nent federal employes estab-
Employes'. Claims Act of 1964
,
With respect to the settlement of lished by ? the Whitten amend-
claims against .United States by ment. .
members, of the uniformed RETIREMENT - Public Law
services and civilian officers 89-17, approved May 1, clarifies
and employes of the United the, application of certain aniiui-
States for. damages to, or Joss ty increase legislation.. This act
of, personal property 'incident to clarifies beyond any doubt the
their . service, and for other designation of ' those persons
purposes. This act increases the who are entitled to receive an
present limitation on the settle. increase in . annuities payable
meent of , claims. for personal out : of the civil- service retire-
property losses incident to the ment and disability fund as a
service of personnel of the result of legislation enacted by
military departments and the Congress 1111958 and 1962.
Coast Guard from $6,500'to $10,- PUBLIC 'LAW .89.205, ap-
060 and on the settlement of proved Sept. 17, 1965, provides
Claims up to ;$6,500 of the per. certain increases in annuities
'sonnel ? of other agencies, 'under payable from the civil service
uniform. policies : prescribed by retirement and. disability fund.
the President. This act' increases annuities
-EMPLOYMENT Public which commenced on or before
Law '89-261, ? approved Oct. 19, Oct. 1, 1956, by 11.1 percent and
repeals section 165 of the Re- annuities which c commenced
'yised Statutes. relating to the after Oct. 1, 1956, but not later
appointment' of .'women ' ' to than Dec. 1, 1965, by 6.1 per-
~lerkships in' the '-executive cent. The' act also increases the
departments. This act repeals annuities of widows and widow-
an 1870 . statute . which was ers of former ' employes who
interpreted as vesting,in agency died before the survivorship li
heads, rather than in the Presi- am'endm'ents - of 1948 by the
dent, `the -authority to decide lesser of '15 percent or $10 a
whether the filling of a position month. It . provides for ' future
should be limited to'one sex or cost-of-living . increases, effec-
ihe other. ? ? ? ?? tive the first day of the third
I ITune ' 22, amends the Retired five months of at Ieast 3 percent
3'ederal ; Employes Health above the' index for July 1965, or
Benefits Act with respect to the index for the month used for
government contribution for determining the most . recent
dst ation of th ct. b is Law At
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provisions' of. Public Law 89-205,
above, to ' ? retiring employes
whose annuities commence
after Dec. 1 and not later than
Dec. 31, 1965.
VETERANS' PREFERENCE
- Public Law 89, approved
October, 1965 amends title 38 of
the U.S. Code to provide , In-
creases in the rates of disability
compensation payable to veter-
ans. Section 5 of the Act extends
the benefits of the Veterans
Preference Act' of 1944 to per-
sons. who are injured while
enroute to or from Induction
into active military service in
th'e Armed Forces of, the United
States.
PAY -- Public Law 89, ap-
proved October, 1965, Federal
Employes Salary,Act of 1965,
provides a 3.6 percent increase
in rates of the statutory sched-
ules for the Classification Act, 1
the postal -field service; the
Foreign Service and the Depart-'
iment of Medicine and Surgery
in the Veterans Administration,
effective the beginning' of the
first pay period after Oct. 1,
1965. Similar increases are also
provided for 'employes of the
Agricultural Stabilization and
Conservation County Commit-
tees, for assistant U.S. attor-
neys, and for certain employes
in the legislative and judicial
branches..
. The Act ? also authorizes
severance pay for employes
who, are involuntarily separated
throng i no fault of their own.
Also, ' Classification . Act em-
ployes are given the right of
appeal to the Civil - Service
Commission when their work
performance is determined not
to be of an aoceptable..level of
competence. The . act also
revises the present ' law ? on
overtime and holiday pay for
postal employes. ?
. ALLOWANCES - Public Law
89, approved October, 1965,
Federal Employes Salary Act
of 1965, . Section 13 increases
from $100 to $125 the maximum
ambunt available for reimburse-
ment to federal employes who
must purchase uniforms. Sec-
tion 6 of the act authorizes the
payment of a relocation allow-
ance to employes in: the postal
are