SALARY ADJUSTMENTS DURING ROTATIONAL ASSIGNMENTS OF SCIENTIFIC AND ENGINEERING PERSONNEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00679A000300010029-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 27, 2003
• Sequence Number: 29
• Publication Date: August 7, 1958
• Content Type: MEMO

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7 August 1958
OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MEMOR~iNDUM NO. 20-605-13
SUBJECT: Salary Adjustments wring Rotational Assignments of
Scientific and Engineering Personnel
1. The Civil Service Commission has authorized-payment of advanced
salary rates to certain scientific and engineering personnel in the clas-
sified service. Au employee must be qualified in a scientific or engineer-
ing category and occupy a position in the particular category to qualify
for these rates.
2, Though it is the Agency's policy to adopt the advanced rates
and to follow classified Civil Service principles when practicable, the
necessity for rotation of scientific' and engineering personnel into
general intelligence positions has required the establishment of a
broader Agency policy which wi11 facilitate rotation by giving scientific
and engineering persontel more protection and encouragement.
3. Employees rotated fral!n. scientific or engineering positions to
other professional positions will be reassigned without reduction in pay
and, if promoted while on such rotational. assignment, will receive the
minimum rate authorized for the higher grade scientific or engineering
position at the time of promotion, or such higher rate as is necessary
to give the employee a salary increase of at least one step, provided:
a. The total number of employees in a Career Service who are
receiving the advanced rates while on rotational assignment does not
exceed 100 of the total scientific and engineering positions in that
Career Service, and
b> The rotational assignment of such employees does not exceed
three continuous years nor an aggregate of three years in a total
of nine years.
~. Scientific or engineering employees who have been rotated prior
to the effective date of this OPM will be granted the advanced rates pro-
vided they.oecupied Agency scientific or engineering positions after
2g December 1955 These employees must be rotated back to scientific or
engineering positions within three years from the date of rotatiohal.
assignment, to retain the benefits of this policy,
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SUBJECT: Salary Adjustments During Rotational Assignments of
Scientific and Engineering Personnel
5. Employees granted advanced. rates during rotational assignments
will revert to norms). pay policies when permanently assigned to non-
scientific or engineering positions. Personnel carried in rotational
assignments for three continuous years or an aggregate of three years
in a total of nine years will also revert to norms]. pay policies when
these time limits are exceeded.
6Q The dead of the Career Service, or other official designated by
him, who requests the rotational assignment of personnel under this policy,
wi11 indicate on the Personnel Action Request, Form 1152, the approximate
duration of the assignment and will specify by title, code, and position
.number the position to which the employee will return upon completion of
the rotational assignment. This provision ensures that a suitable position
is planned for the individual. at all times. The designated position may be
changed if necessary. The "To" side of the Form 1152 will show the position
title, code, and number of the position to which assigned with the scien-
tific or engineering title of the incumbent in parentheses.
7. The effective date of this 4PM is 20 June 1958. No actions
will be made :retroactive to an earlier date.
8. The Director of Personnel may grant exceptions to this policy '
which are in the best interests of the Government.
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