COMMISSION ON ORGANIZATION OF THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH OF THE GOVERNMENT HEARINGS J BEFORE SUBCOMMITTEES OF THE COMMITTEE ON POST OFFICE AND CIVIL SERVICE EIGHTY-SECOND CONGRESS CONTENTS Aiken, George D., Senator from Vermont.. Bruce, Clarence Ñ., Director, Division of Budget and Planning, Post Page 4, 38, 87 Doherty, William C., president, National Association of Letter Car- Flemming, Arthur S., Director of Manpower, Division of Office of Defense Mobilization, and president of Ohio Wesleyan University-- Foster, Charles E., assistant director of national legislation, Disabled Frear, J. Allen, Jr., Senator from Vermont (statement submitted by 89 109 79 Horton, Jesse V., legislative representative, National Association of 93 Kennedy, Miles D., legislative director, American Legion. 48, 90 McCormick, Robert L. L., director of research, Citizens Committee Meeks, E. A., secretary, National League of District Postmasters. Messer, Ross A., legislative representative, National Association of Post Office and General Services Maintenance Employees___ Raley, Bun, president National Association of Rural Letter Carriers - Staats, Elmer B., Assistant Director of the Bureau of the Budget__. Stengle, Col. Charles I., legislative representative, American Federa- Watson, James R., executive director, National Civil Service League_ 30 27 III Steward, Luther C., president, National Federation of Federal Em- RECRUITMENT PROCEDURE FOR COMPETITIVE CIVIL SERVICE THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1951 UNITED STATES SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE No. 1 OF THE COMMITTEE ON POST OFFICE AND CIVIL SERVICE, Washington, D. C. The subcommittee met, pursuant to call, at 9:30 a. m., in room 135, Senate Office Building, Senator John O. Pastore (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Present: Senators Pastore (chairman of subcommittee) and Butler, of Maryland. Also present: H. W. Brawley, staff director. Senator BUTLER (presiding). The committee will be in order. We are holding hearings this morning on S. 1135. The bill will be made a part of the record at this time. (The bill under consideration, S. 1135, is as follows:) [S. 1135, 82d Cong., 1st sess.] A BILL To provide a recruitment procedure for the competitive civil service in order to insure selection of personnel on the basis of open competition and merit, and for other purposes Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Federal Personnel Recruitment Act of 1951." SEC. 2. For the purposes of this Act (1) The term "department” includes all departments, independent establishments, agencies, and corporations in the executive, legislative, or judicial branches of the Federal Government or in the municipal government of the District of Columbia in which there are competitive positions subject to the Civil Service Act of 1883, as amended and supplemented. (2) The term "Commission" means the Civil Service Commission. (3) The term "employment plan" means a plan provided for in section 3 (c). SEC. 3. (a) It shall be the duty and responsibility of the Commission and of the departments under regulations of the Commission to maintain and protect a system of recruitment, examination, certification, and selection of persons for competitive civil-service positions in the departments which will result in open competition and selection on merit. (b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), the Commission is authorized, at the direction of the President and during a national emergency declared by proclamation of the President or by concurrent resolution of the Congress, to modify or set aside the principle of open competition to the extent and for such time as it deems necessary in order to expedite and facilitate the recruitment of the best qualified and available personnel. (c) Each department shall submit to the Commission an employment plan or plans for the recruitment, examination, certification, and selection of persons for specified categories of competitive civil-service positions in such department. Two or more departments may jointly submit and operate under an employment plan. If the Commission approves an employment plan submitted by a department, such department, or such department and the Commission, in accordance with such plan, shall recruit, examine, and certify, and such department shall 1 |