7 4TH CONGRESS . SESS . II, CH. 140 . MARCH 14, 1936 .
116 1 [CH AP TER 140.1 AN ACT
March 14, 1936. To provide for vacations to Government employees, and for other purposes .
[H. R . 8458 .] [Public, loo. 471.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House o f Representatives o f the United States o f America in Congress assembled, That with the vacations to Govern- exception of teachers and librarians of the public schools of the m Excep pons . District of Columbia and officers and emp loyees of the Panama Canal and Panama Railroad on the Isthmus of Panama, and except as provided in section 4 hereof, all civilian officers and employee s of the United States wherever stationed and of the government of the District of Columbia, regardless of their tenure, in addition to any accrued leave, shall be entitled to twenty-six days' annual leave with pay each calendar year, exclusive of Sundays and holidays : Pro- Proviso . r
d lease ; vided, That the part unused in any year shall be accumulated for maximum, succeeding years until it totals not exceeding sixty days . This Act leavePplicable to si ck shall not affect any sick leave to which employees are now or may Post, p . 1162. hereafter be entitled . Temporary employees, except temporary eea Temporary employ- employees engaged on construction work at hourly rates, shall be entitled to two and one-half days leave for each month of service . The annual leave herein authorized shall be granted at such times as the heads of the various departments and independent establish- ments may prescribe . This Act becomes effective January 1, 1936 .
Effective date . SEC . 2 . Each head of a department or independent establishment Regulations . shall is sue general public regulatio ns, not inconsistent with law , setting forth the hours of duty per day and per week for each group of emplo yees . . Befo re is suing such regu lati ons, which shal l be issu ed Interdepartmental within three months from the date of approval of this Act, the heads conference . of departments and independent establishments shall meet and con- sult among themselves and make such regulations as nearly uniform as possible so that all employees, temporary or permanent, in all departments and independent establishments shall receive like treat- ment as nearly as may be practicable : Prov ide d, That heads of p~afting subcommit- departments and independent establishments may appoint a subcom- tee . mittee to draft such regulations . SEC. 3 . Each head of a department or independent establishment Record of overtime work . shall keep a record of all work performed, in excess of the work required by departmental regulations issued in conformance with section 2 hereof, for the period commencing July 1, 1936 and ending December 31, 19 36, and shall report same to the Civil Service Com- mission at the end of each month . The Civil Service Commission Report to congress . shall make a report of such record to the Congress on or before January 31, 1937 . SEC . 4 . Nothing in this Act shall affect the Postmaster General Post Office Depart- and officers and emplo yees in or under the Post Of fice Department : me nt not affected . Pro vid ed, T hat officers and employees in the departmental service Es ov Provisoo ns . a a n d i n t h M a i l E q u i p m e n t S
of the Post Office Depart shall be included within the provisions of this Act . SEC . 5 . Nothing in this Act shall be construed to prevent the con- se rv ice outside co n- tinuance of any existing leave differential now obtaining for the tinental limits . benefit of employees of the Federal Government stationed outside the continental limits of the United States . S EC . 6. The em ployees of any corporation c reated under authority 6 ° Federal, etc., corpora- of an Act of Congress which is either wholly controlled or wholly owned by the United States Go vernment, whether or not the employ- ees thereof are paid from fun ds appropriated by Congress, shall be included within the provisions of this Act .
