Bills To Implement Recommendations of the Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government (The Hoover Commission): Hearings Before the United States Senate Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, Subcommittee No. 1 (Civil Service), Subcommittee No. 2 (Postal Service), Eighty-Second Congress, First Session, on Aug. 30, Sept. 5, 12, 1951Considers (82) S. 1135, (82) S. 1148, (82) S. 1160. |
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Page 70 - That there shall be at the seat of government an executive department to be known as the Department of Commerce and Labor, and a Secretary of Commerce and Labor, who shall be the head thereof...
Page 92 - Sixth, that no person in said service has any right to use his official authority or influence to coerce the political action of any person or body.
Page 72 - An Act making appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, and for other purposes
Page 72 - An Act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eightythree, and for other purposes", approved August 7, 1882, as amended (40 USC 263).
Page 55 - In any reduction in personnel in any civilian service of any Federal agency, competing employees shall be released in accordance with Civil Service Commission regulations which shall give due effect to tenure of employment, military preference, length of service, and efficiency ratings: Provided, That the length of time spent in active service in the armed forces of the United States of each such employee shall be credited in computing length of total service : Provided further, That preference employees...
Page 111 - Such examinations shall be practical in their character, and so far as may be shall relate to those matters which will fairly test the relative capacity and fitness of the persons examined to discharge the duties of the service into which they seek to be appointed.
Page 4 - When, in accordance with civil-service laws and rules, a nominating or appointing officer shall request certification of eligibles for appointment purposes, the Civil Service Commission shall certify, from the top of the appropriate register of eligibles, a number of names sufficient to permit the nominating or appointing officer to consider at least three...
Page 5 - All laws or parts of laws inconsistent with this Act are hereby repealed to the extent of such inconsistency.
Page 2 - ... by proclamation of the President, or by concurrent resolution of the Congress, that hostilities between the United States and such country, state, or sovereignty have ended.
Page 62 - Act. (b) The Commissioner is also authorized to make such studies, investigations, and reports as may be necessary or appropriate to carry out the purposes of this Act...