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Page 101 - That after the expiration of six months from the passage of this act no officer or clerk shall be appointed, and no person shall be employed to enter or be promoted in either of the said classes now existing, or that may be arranged hereuuder pursuant to said rules, until he has passed an examination, or is shown to be specially exempted from such examination in conformity herewith.
Page 25 - The same requirements as to education, experience, knowledge and ability are demanded of incumbents; (b) the same tests of fitness may be used in choosing qualified appointees; (c) the same schedule of compensation may be made to apply with equity.
Page 228 - Council shall be to secure the greatest measure of cooperation between the State in its capacity as employer, and the general body of Civil Servants in matters affecting the Civil Service, with a view to increased efficiency in the public service combined with the well-being of those employed...
Page 140 - Third, appointments to the public service aforesaid in the departments at Washington shall be apportioned among the several States and Territories and the District of Columbia upon the basis of population as ascertained at the last preceding census.
Page 92 - Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, with the exception of the Assistant Secretary, the average of the salaries of the total number of persons under any grade in any bureau, office, or other appropriation unit shall not at any time exceed the average of the...
Page 229 - Means for securing to the workpeople a greater share in and responsibility for the determination and observance of the conditions under which their work is carried on.
Page 210 - Department would jeopardize the health of fellow clerks, and in exceptional and meritorious cases, where a clerk or employee is personally ill, and where to limit the annual leave to thirty days in any one calendar year would work peculiar hardship, it may be extended, in the discretion of the head of the Department, with pay, not exceeding thirty days in any one case or in any one calendar year.
Page 118 - ... curriculum have been aimed at giving this purpose greater meaning in the student's life. "2. The cooperative program. Antioch believes in the program of alternate work and study as a means of encouraging the student to develop initiative, maturity, and judgment, and of helping him to find that vocation for which he is best fitted and in which he will be happiest. Current developments in the plan are pointed toward better integration between the student's work experiences and his academic experiences,...
Page 88 - In no case shall, the compensation of any employee be increased unless Congress has appropriated money from which the increase may lawfully be paid, nor shall the rate for any employee be increased beyond the maximum rate for the grade to which his position is allocated.
Page 92 - ... the average of the compensation rates specified for the grade by such Act, and in grades in which only one position. is allocated the salary of such position shall not exceed the average of the compensation rates for the grade except that in unusually meritorious cases of one position in a grade advances may be made to rates higher than the average of the compensation rates of the grade but not more often than once in any fiscal year and then only to the next higher rate...