HOUSE UNIT OKS BROADER AUTHORITY FOR RAISES IN SHORTAGE CATEGORIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200600009-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 9, 1999
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: September 8, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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By JOSEPH YOUNG- The CSC has used its present! the facts are revealed, the more
Star Star Wrilcr
4s pat of the government
y?r;bill, the house Cori, bro :tithed nown.s to extend the `vetoed federal employe life
cnsation subcommittee has initial adjustment process'
approved a provision that could lthrough step 10, a good indica-I
I to additional pay raises of Lion that it plans to use such new
s.much as 9 percent for federal authority if necessary if Con?
cientists, engineers, nurses and gress approves. The House
ther employes in shortage subcommittee's favorable action
ategories. augurs well for final congres?
Besides providing for a 4.5
ercent pay raise effective Oct.
for all federal classified
rrployes, the subcommittee's
ieasure broadens the Civil
ervice Commission's authority
' aprove above-the-rate pay
djustmen is in shortage cate-
.Under the 1962 law, the CSC
as authority at present to fix
tarting rates of a grade up
hrough the 7th step and adjust
Ili other salaries in the tirade
ecordini!ly.
'f`ife subcammiitec's bill would
insurance bill.
Yesterday's column referred
to the White I-louse's announce-
ment that the Civil Service
Commission had Approved
President Johnson's veto, when
in fact the CSC' had reconi-
sional approval. mended that the bill be signed.
The subco. imittee's bill would Now it developes that Rep.
also give all. federal classified Dominick Daniels D-N.J., the
employes pay raises effective
i extremely able and highly
July 1968, amounting to one-half respected chairman of the
the comparability gap between House Civil Service Insurance
government and industry pay subcommittee and sponsor of
that exist, according to the the bill, was not even shown the
figures that will be available for
1967. The bill also provides pay
raises for federal classified
employes to close the second-
half of the comparability gap,
effective ,Aril 1, 1959.
Postal ~Tiorher would recive a
xtend this authority to fix o percent pay raise effective this
tarting rates all the way up October and a 5 percent pay
hrough the 10th. step of the
rade and adjust all other steps
ecordingly.
:Since the pay differential
etwean each step in a grade
verages about 3 percent for
mployes in shortage categories,
'the CSC decides to use this
ew authority.
'Congress would tape action on
postal salaries in 1960 irrespec-
tive of comparability factors.
This is all right with postal
employe leaders because postal
workers in the first five levels
Would stand to get little or
nothing in 191,
if their pay
raises =sere linked to compara-
bility standards used by the
administration
courtesy by the White House of
being notified in advance that
the measure would be vetoed.
He learned of the veto by read-
ing bout it in the newspapers.
to the conscientious New Jersoy
legislatcr, a strong administra-
tion supporter, who had worked
long and hard to come up with
a bill that he had every reason
to believe would be satisfactory
to the President.
This breakdown of communi-
cations between the White House
and Cahitol Hill is one of the
main reasons why Johnson's
going in Congress this year.
EMPLOYE ('RIGHTS - Do-
blcamv;:. reported pore spite the Senate leadership's
yesterday, s,iie:c~. is a move to! action in postponing a Senate
divorce poster cmhloyes in the vote on the government employe
first five levels from. the corn
pensation subcornrni tape' . pay! gal of rights, its chief sponsor,
bill this year and instead hive Sen. Sam Ervin, D-N.C., expects
:them a 6.9 percent reclas ifies- the measure will be called up
lion pay increase by linking for action within the next few
,such a provision to the postal weeks and approved.
irate bill. The leadership postponed
action at the request of the;
INCREDIBLE -- The : more Central Intelligence Agency and
_:._....:._: Yjthe National Security Agency
,
which are lobbying furiously to
bet themselves exempted from !
the bill: Ervin is strongly op-1
posed to exempting the . two
agencies
pointing out that
,
employes in CIA and NSA need;
protection of their constitutional
rights even more urgently than
other federal cmhloyes.
The vote on exempting CIA !
and NSA from the bill is expect-
ed to be close. However, in any
event, with or without the CIA
and NSA in the measuue, it is
expected to be approved by the
Senate. ? The bill would establish
strong safeguards ' to protect
.1 government workers .against
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