ADVANCE FOR WEDNESDAY MORNING NEWSPAPERS NOT TO BE USED BY PRESS OR RADIO BEFORE 7 P.M.,E.D.T.,TUESDAY,JULY 8, 1958

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-06365A001200030041-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 23, 2000
• Sequence Number: 41
• Publication Date: July 8, 1958
• Content Type: PREL

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nV ANCE FCR =NESDAY MCIINM WISP
NOT TO BE USED BY PRESS UK RADIO Dr`-
7 P.M., E.D.T., TUESDAY, JULY 8, 1958
that meetings will begin dur-
The Civil Service Commission announced today
ing the next two weeks with agency and employee representatives to discuss the
best means for putting the new Government Employees Training Act into effect.
The measure was signed into law by the President on July 7.
will be discussed with
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Long sought by the executive brancn and ? a.,,.,?.?
- including train-
authorizes all types of employee training,
service and i8nd labors of facilities such as colleges,
ing within universities, the Federal manufacturing plants,
The Commission is made responsible for genera]. administration of the law
and issuance of Goverranentwide regulations and instructions under which agencies
will operate their own training programs. The Commission is directed to con-
tinue providing in-service training assistance to agencies and to review agen-
t-service training programs for compliance with the laxnndandgin-sews.
lf-developane
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the necessity for employee se
arty, new controls to programs operating wholly
The act also reaffirms
ice training, but it adds few, in the kinds
within Government. Agency heads remain responsible for employees need training,
of training to be given, when it is to be given, which employ
and how much money to allot for training purposes within the limits of appro-
priations.
CSC Chairman Harris Ellsworth hailed E1lswnew orthcaaid, a"x11.1 enable Govern _el
administration. "The new authority, Mr. ment to get on a par with the best braining practices ofo private a industry. It
establishes for the first time by law a general P cy training.
efficiency and oconomny in Government activities through employee t
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u recruits cannot be found witAa ,iitaL l}i necessary and unusual- combina-
_c ns of skills such as those rcgUred in today's complex Government,
agencies can now select their o..n en::ployees whose skills are closest to
those required and can give them the needed training."
The chief highlight of the new law is that it authorizes agencies to
pay for training of employees in non-Government facilities when such train-
ing is necessary and is not reasonably available within Government. It
also allows certain types of contributions, atiwrards, and payments (such as
Rockefeller scholarships) to be made by non-profit organizations and
accepted by, Federal employees under certain conditions, and it permits
agencies to send employees at Government expense-to meetings which will
contribute to improved supervision, management, and conduct of statutory
functions.
The act specifies certain controls to govern out-eerviab training.
Trainees must agree In advance to remain with the agency for at least
three times the length of the training period or repay the training costs
and no employee with less than one year of continuous service may be given
out-service training. An employee may not receive more than one year of
out-service training for each 10 years of total service, and such training
may not be given solely for purposes of promotion or the obtaining of
academic degrees. An agency's out-service training time may not exceed
one percent of its authorized personnel strength.
Examples of types of out-service training which may be used are the
sending of --
- an equipment specialist to a factory maintenance school
- an electronics technician to a laboratory to be trained in the use
of the latest equipment
- a vocational rehabilitation specialist to a leading clinic to
learn the newest methods of testing and helping the disabled
- scientists and engineers to laboratories and universities for
special job-related studies. #
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