Women in the Federal Service: U.S. Civil Service Commission, Washington, D.C. |
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Page 11 - In determining the rate of compensation which an employee shall receive, the principle of equal compensation for equal work irrespective of sex shall be followed.
Page 10 - Geodetic Survey, and the Panama Canal Service. Both men and women will be admitted to examinations, but appointing officers have the legal right to specify the sex desired when requesting the certification of eligibles. Entrance salaries as high as $200 a month are offered, with prospect of promotion in some branches to $250, $300, and higher rates for special positions. Further...
Page 21 - The Commission is opposed as a matter of principle to legislation requiring the discharge of a married person from public position because the other member of the married couple is also a public employee. While in emergencies such laws may be apparently justified, they disregard the merit principle and rest upon the eleemosynary concept of the public 2 Monograph IO of the Commission of Inquiry on Public Service Personnel: John F. Miller, "Veteran Preference in the Public Service," in Problems of...
Page 1 - ... in the numbers appointed to the service, such inequality will arise from the needs and conditions of the service itself, and not from any provisions of the civil service rules or any restrictive action of the Commission. It is now generally recognized that women can successfully perform the duties of many of the subordinate places under the Government In many cases they have shown eminent fitness for the places they have held and high qualities in their work. There is simple justice in allowing...
Page 12 - The appointing officer shall make selection, with reference solely to merit and fitness, from the three names certified, unless objection shall be made, and sustained by the Commission, to one or more of the...
Page 12 - Certifications shall be made without regard to sex unless the nature of the duties of the position to be filled are such as, in the opinion of the Commission, can be performed only by men or women as the case may be", and substitutes therefor the sentence "Certifications shall be made without regard to sex unless sex is specified in the request, and the request is approved by the Commission.