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IV. SERVICE REGULATIONS

ARTICLE I.—PERSONNEL.

CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

SECTION 1. All matters affecting or concerning appointments and other changes of personnel within the Department shall be considered and disposed of in strict conformity with the civil-service act and the rules and Executive orders appurtenant thereto, particulars of which are set forth in the pamphlet published and reissued from time to time by the United States Civil Service Commission, entitled "Civil Service Act, Rules, and Executive Orders." All officers of the Department whose duties so require shall thoroughly familiarize themselves with the requirements thus laid down and at all times conform strictly thereto.

ARTICLE II.-WORKING TIME.

STATUTORY REQUIREMENTS.

SECTION 1. An act of Congress of March 15, 1898, provides that "It shall be the duty of the heads of the several executive departments, in the interest of the public service, to require of all clerks and other employees of whatever grade or class in the respective departments not less than seven hours of labor each day except Sundays and days declared public holidays by law or Executive order: Provided, That the heads of the departments may, by special order, stating the reason, further extend the hours of service of any clerk or employee in their departments, respectively; but in case of extension it shall be without additional compensation."

REGULATING HOURS.

SEC. 2. In compliance with the foregoing statutory requirements, the working hours in the Department, unless otherwise specially ordered, shall be from 9 a. m. to 4.30 p. m., with half an hour for luncheon, on all days of the week but Sunday, except from June 15 to September 15 of each year, when the hours on Saturday shall be from 9 a. m. to 1 p. m. without intermission for luncheon.1

1 Executive order of June 9, 1914, reads as follows: "It is hereby ordered that from June 15 to September 15 of each year, until further notice, four hours, exclusive of time for luncheon, shall constitute a day's work on Saturdays for all clerks and other employees of the Federal Government, wherever employed; and all Executive or other orders in conflict herewith, except the Executive order of April 4, 1904, relating to certain naval stations, are hereby revoked. Provided, however, that this order shall not apply to any bureau or office of the Government, or to any of the clerks or other employees thereof, that may for special public reasons be excepted therefrom by the head of the department having supervision or control of such bureau or office, where the same would be inconsistent with the provisions of existing law. [Signed] Woodrow Wilson."

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ARTICLE III.-LEAVES OF ABSENCE.

STATUTORY PROVISIONS.

SECTION 1. Section 7 of the act approved March 15, 1898,' provides that "The head of any department may grant thirty days' annual lcave with pay in any one year to each clerk or employee" and "that where some member of the immediate family of a clerk or employee is afflicted with a contagious disease and requires the care and attention of such employee, or where his or her presence in the 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 in any one calendar year would work peculiar hardship, it may be extended, in the discretion of the Secretary, with pay, not exceeding thirty days in any one case in any one calendar year;" but that these provisions "shall not be construed to mean that so long as a clerk or employee is borne upon the rolls of the department in excess of the time herein provided for or granted that he or she shall be entitled to pay during the period of such excessive absence, but that the pay shall stop upon the expiration of the granted leave." The deficiency appropriation act approved July 7, 1898, provides that nothing previously enacted "shall be construed to prevent the head of any executive department from granting thirty days' annual leave with pay in any one year to a clerk or employee, notwithstanding such clerk or employee may have had during such year not exceeding thirty days' leave with pay on account of sickness as provided in" said acts. The legislative, executive, and judicial act approved February 24, 1899, provides that "the thirty days' annual leave of absence with pay in any one year to clerks and employees in the several executive departments authorized by existing law shall be exclusive of Sundays and legal holidays." The act providing for the organization of the Militia of the District of Columbia' provides that all officers and employees of the United States and of the District of Columbia who are members of the National Guard shall be entitled to leave of absence from their respective duties, without loss of pay or time, on all days of any parade or encampment ordered or authorized under the provisions of this act. Pursuant to the foregoing provisions of law the head of each bureau is authorized to grant annual leave with pay, not exceeding 30 days in each calendar year and, upon approval of the Secretary of Labor, an extension of leave not exceeding 30 days on account of sickness.

130 Stat. L., 316.

225 Stat. L., 779.

3 By the act of July 1, 1902 (32 Stat. L., 615), this provision is construed to cover all days of service which the National Guard, or any portion thereof, may be ordered to perform by the commanding general.

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