TABLE 2.-Number of civil officers and employees of the new agencies (created under the present administration) of the Executive branch of the Federal Government, with additions and separations in and outside the District of Columbia for the month of October 1936—Continued TABLE 3.-Number of civil officers and employees of emergency agencies and agencies under the Works Program of the executive branch of the Federal Government, with additions and separations in and outside the District of Columbia for the month of October 1936 1 Reports in addition to regular employees: 499 nurses, 7,748 military personnel, 1,135 intermittent personnel, 344,689 enrolled personnel, 6,669 enrolled Indians, 177 enrollees in the Virgin Islands, and 764 enrollees in Hawaii. TABLE 3.-Number of civil officers and employees of emergency agencies and agencies under the Works Program of the executive branch of the Federal Government, with additions and separations in and outside the District of Columbia for the month of October 1936-Continued Table 1. Table 2.. Table 3.. 2 Includes 162 employees on administrative furlough in the District of Columbia and 888 employees outside the District. The following table presents the net figures for additions and separations, i. e., the above totals less individual and group transfers leaving the actual gains and losses to the entire service for the computation of turn-over: The aggregate net pay roll for the civil executive branch of the Federal Government for the month of October 1936 was $131,020,372. Permanent or emergency in District of Columbia. Temporary in District of Columbia. Mr. WIGGLESWORTH. Could you show us, when there has been an increase over the last 3 fiscal years, the authority for that increase in each case? Take a given department, in which the increase has been so much. Could you give us a break-down of that, with the act or the Executive order that has led to that increase? Mr. MITCHELL. We have some of those figures. Mr. VIPOND. We would not know the basis for the figures, except in the case of increased appropriations. Mr. MITCHELL. We have had some correspondence with various departments in reference to that matter. There is no way in which we can furnish that information. We tried to get it from the various departments, upon the request of a member of this committee. Most of the large departments have told us that it would require so much work that they could not undertake to furnish it and break it down in the way requested. However, we can try again to get it, if the committee desires to have it and we have not got it ourselves. There is no particular reason for our keeping it for our own purposes. Mr. WIGGLESWORTH. I should not think it would be a large undertaking to obtain that information. Mr. MITCHELL. I remember the Treasury Department said they could do it, but it would take a very considerable amount of work and that they had not the funds available to detail persons to work it out. The War Department took the same ground. But the smaller departments have furnished us statistics that would help to answer your question. Mr. WIGGLESWORTH. Will you let me have, individually, anything that you have along that line? Mr. MITCHELL. Yes; we will get all we can and let you have it. DURATION OF TEMPORARY APPOINTMENTS Mr. WIGGLESWORTH. What can you tell us about the status of temporary appointments? We talked about that a year ago. Those appointments were made under two or three classifications, as I remember it. Mr. MITCHELL. Those people are appointed in this way; wherever we have no register we allow them to make temporary appointments. Mr. MOYER. I think the temporary employment situation has greatly improved. We made a check in 50 of the largest post offices in the country last summer. Clerk-carrier registers were available for 62 percent of the offices. For 38 percent of the offices examinations had been announced and it was expected registers would be established by the end of this calendar year. In some cases a larger number of applications were secured than anticipated, and it will probably be about 90 days before those registers are established. Mr. WIGGLESWORTH. As I recall, in certain instances those appointments are made for a period of 30 days from the receipt of the certificate. In other cases they are made for the duration of the job, not exceeding 6 months. Mr. MOYER. That is right. Mr. WIGGLESWORTH. There has been some complaint in the past that those limitations were not being lived up to by various agencies of the Government. Do you know, for instance, how many temporary appointees there are in the service that have been held for more than 6 months or more than 30 days? Mr. MOYER. No; but we can get you that information. Mr. WIGGLESWORTH. Will you insert that in your remarks? 1. Temporary employees appointed through the departmental service, who have served 6 months and are still serving, are employed under conditions and in numbers as follows: (a) Under sec. 2 of civil-service rule VIII, which provides for temporary employment pending establishment of register: (1) Originally appointed under sec. 4 of rule VIII (stenog- 8 (2) Appointed in the absence of eligibles (applicants for pend- 373 Total, sec. 2............. 381 (b) Under sec. 4 of civil-service rule VIII, which provides for job employment where work is temporary: (1) Appointed from existing registers(2) Appointed outside of register. Total, sec. 4... (c) Grand total, secs. 2 and 4... 115 128 243 624 2. Temporary employees who have been serving more than 30 days since certifi cates of eligibles were issued total 467. These are junior veterinarians in the Bureau of Animal Industry, Department of Agriculture. At the time these employees were taken over on the regular rolls last summer it was believed that a sufficient number of eligibles would not be secured as a result of the then pending examination, therefore, another examination announcement was issued in October 1936. A total of 353 temporaries have already been displaced since the issuance of the certificate of eligibles, leaving the above-mentioned 467 temporaries to be displaced which the Department appears to be doing as rapidly as possible. These temporary appointments were authorized under the provisions of section 2 of Civil Service rule VIII, which provides as follows: "Pending establishment of register.—When there are no eligibles upon a register for any grade in which a vacancy exists and the public interest requires that it be filled before eligibles can be provided by the Commission, then the Commission may authorize temporary appointment without examination. Such appointment shall continue only for such period as may be necessary to make appointment through certification, and in no case, without prior approval of the Commission, shall extend beyond 30 days from the receipt by the appointing officer of the Commission's certification of eligibles." |