59 STAT.] 79TH CONG. , 1ST SESS.-CH. 274-JULY 6, 1945 [CHAPTER 274] AN ACT To reclassify the salaries of postmasters, officers, and employees of the Postal Service; to establish uniform procedures for computing compensation; and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the term "employees" wherever used in this Act shall include officers, super- visors, special-delivery messengers in offices of the first class, and all other employees paid from field appropriations of the Postal Service, other than postmasters, skilled-trades employees of the mail-equip- ment shops, job cleaners in first- and second-class post offices, and employees who are paid on a fee or contract basis. HOURS OF DUTY SEc. 2 . Employees shall be required to work not more than eight hours a day except as provided in section 4. The eight hours of service shall not extend over a longer period than ten consecutive hours, and the schedules of duty of the employees shall be regulated accordingly: Provided, That the provisions of this section shall not apply to employees of the Railway Mail Service and the Air Mail Service; post-office inspectors; rural carriers; traveling mechanicians; exam- iners of equipment and supplies; employees in third-class post offices; employees paid on an hourly basis; employees not in the automatic or additional annual salary grades; and carriers in the Village Delivery Service: Provided further, That any classified substitute employee who reports for duty at any post office or other postal unit in compliance with an official order shall be employed not less than two hours following the hour at which such classified substitute employee is ordered to report. Employment in any branch of the Postal Service will be construed as compliance with this proviso. COMPENSATORY TIME SEC. 3 . When the needs of the service require employees to per- form service on Saturdays, Sundays, or holidays, they shall be allowed compensatory time for such service on one day within five working days next succeeding the Saturday or Sunday and within thirty days next succeeding the holiday: Provided, That the Post- master General may, if the exigencies of the service require, authorize the payment of overtime to employees other than supervisory employees whose base salaries are more than $3,200 per annum for services performed on Saturdays, Sundays, and Christmas Day dur- ing the month of December in lieu of compensatory time: Provided further, That supervisory employees whose base salaries are more than $3,200 per annum shall be allowed compensatory time for serv- ices performed on Saturdays, Sundays, and on Christmas Day dur- ing the month of December within one hundred and eighty days from the days such service was performed: And provided further, That the provisions of this section shall not apply to employees of the Railway Mail Service and the Air Mail Service; post-office inspectors; rural carriers; traveling mechanicians; examiners of equipment and supplies; clerks in third-class post offices; and employees paid on an hourly basis. OVERTrIE SEC. 4. In emergencies or if the needs of the service require, employees may be employed in excess of eight hours per day and for such overtime service they shall be paid on the basis of 150 per centum July 6, 194 [H. R. 3035] [Public Law 134] Postal Service. Reclassification of salaries. 'Employees. " Classified substitute employees. 435
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