United States Congressional Serial Set Volume 5075 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ...and useful, be established to test fitness for promotion in the classified service. Employees with clean records may be reinstated within one year of date of separation, for purpose of transfer under this provision. Persons appointed on the Isthmus of Panama otherwise than through competitive examination or by transfer or promotion from a competitive position can not be transferred to a competitive position. (See Schedule A, Sec. VIII, p. 82.) Before a person occupying a subclerical position in one Department can go therefrom to a clerical position in another Department he must have earned his promotion through competitive examination and have been promoted in the Department in which he was employed, or have been eligible to the next promotion in that Department. A promotion from a competitive position to an excepted position may only be forced upon a clerk for considerations of public good; as for instance, because the clerk can render more efficient service in the position to which promoted. Temporary service in a higher grade does not forfeit rights of promotion in the former position. The promotion of persons employed for occasional duty will be made only to the lowest class of the grade in which the occasional employee is serving, or to the lowest class of any other grade not requiring a higher examination. In filling vacancies in the regular grades from among those employed for occasional duty, selections for promotion will be made in the order of seniority, except where the principal officer gives good reasons why the occasional employee longest in the service is not by virtue of ability or efficiency entitled to such promotion. The following distinction is made between occasional and temporary employees: A certification for temporary employment is n...