LEGISLATIVE ACTIVITY FOR GOVERNMENT PAY INCREASES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-01370R000400050004-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 1, 2006
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: February 28, 1958
• Content Type: MF

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28 February 1958
Approved For Release 2006/09/01: CIA-RDP80-0137OR000400050004-9
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director (Support)
SUBJECT: Legislative Activity for Government Pay
Increases
1. The Senate Post Office and Civil Service Committee has
approved S. 734 which grants pay increases and on the House side
the House Post Office and Civil Service Committee has approved
H. R. 9999.
2. Both of those bills provide for a retroactive effective
date. On the House side the date is the first pay period after 20
August 1957. On the Senate side the retroactive date is the first
pay period after 1 October 1957. Both bills, however, carry appropri-
ate wording to permit agencies fixing salaries by administrative action
such as CIA to make retroactive adjustments.
3. Of possible concern to the Agency is section 12 of S. 734
which provides for limitations on appointments as follows:
(a) During the calendar quarter beginning on April 1,
1958, no appointment may be made to any civilian
office or position in the executive branch of the
Government.
(b) During any calendar quarter beginning after July 1,
1958, the total number of appointments made to
civilian offices and positions in the executive branch
of the Government shall not exceed a number equal to
one-third of the vacancies which occurred in such
offices and positions during the preceding calendar
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There is a loophole on these limitations in that positions can be filled
if the President determines it to be necessary. In conversation with
the Committee staff it was indicated that the Committee felt strongly
about this provision and wanted it to remain in the legislation as a
possible offset against a more restrictive version of a Jensen type
rider which prohibited the filling of vacancies with no executive
department discretion. In considering whether the Agency should
take any action it would appear that our principal personnel problem
under these restrictions would be with respect to clerical positions.
In this regard it is difficult to justify our needs as being different
from the Government generally. In view of the Presidential discretion
and in view of the fact that our problem would not be unique, I recom-
mend that the Agency take no action with the Congress or elsewhere
to seek exemption for CIA in the proposed legislation.
4. On the House side an amendment was approved by the
Committee which requires the Director of the Bureau of the Budget to
provide by regulation for the absorption by each agency of the cost of
the increases within the limits of existing appropriations for the fiscal
year in which the bill is approved. There are other amendments which
prohibit the pay increase as being the basis for requiring separation
of an individual by reduction in force or placing him in a leave without
pay status. If these amendments, particularly the first, become a
part of the law certainly each agency will have difficult problems but
again I do not believe that the Agency is in an appropriate position to
seek exemption from this amendment. I would recommend that we
take no action to seek such exemption.
Legislative Counsel
cc: Comptroller
Personnel