Impact of War on Federal Personnel Administration by Kammerer Gladys M.;

Author:Kammerer, Gladys M.; [Kammerer, Gladys M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2021-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

Congress took alarm in 1942 at the unwonted movement within the service because of fear that payrolls were rising unduly to the negation of the Classification Act. Although the Senate wished to attach an amendment to an appropriation bill3 to bar increases in compensation to transferees, the House requested a report from the Civil Service Commission on transfers before considering such action.4 The resultant report was the only comprehensive wartime study on transfers.5 In pointing to the need for such a report, Chairman Cannon of the House Appropriations Committee declared:

The amendment aims at some abuse that has grown up during the development of the recruitment of personnel for the war agencies in taking many of the necessary personnel with experience from other agencies. This is a natural operation in a period of shortage of experienced manpower and the war agencies in taking present personnel in other agencies are drawing upon the only reservoir of trained Government employees that exists.

There has also been an insistence on the part of some that instead of bringing new personnel into Washington that use should be made as far as possible of the personnel that is already here in other agencies. This has been done to a large degree and much of the personnel going to the war agencies from regular agencies has gone at higher salaries. This is a proper procedure and is mandatory under the classification laws which are in effect if the employee goes to the performance of more responsible duties and a higher grade of work which calls for a higher pay.

There is, however, undoubtedly, a practice being pursued in some of the war agencies to raid other agencies wherever possible and this without any substantial change in duties. Such practices ought to be stopped.6

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