5:l STAT.] 76TH CONG., 1 ST SESS.-CHS. 134-136-MAY 15, 1939 providing penalty", approved February 8, 1927 (44 Stat. 1059; U. S. C., title 18, sec. 361), is hereby amended by inserting the words "Coast Guard," after the word "Navy," in the first proviso thereof. Approved, May 15, 1939. [CHAPTER 135] AN ACT 745 44 Stat. 1059. 18U.. C..§31l. May 15, 1939 Granting postal employees credit for Saturday in annual and sick leave law, [H. R . 38132 thereby conforming to the forty-hour workweek or five-day-week law. [Public, No. 78] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That paragraph 1 of section 11 of the Act entitled "An Act reclassifying the salaries of postmasters and employees of the Postal Service, readjusting their salaries and compensation on an equitable basis, increasing postal rates to provide for such readjustment, and for other purposes", approved February 28, 1925 (U. S . C ., title 39, 1934 edition, sec. 823), as amended, is amended to read as follows: "Employees in the Postal Service shall be granted fifteen days' leave of absence with pay, exclusive of Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays, each fiscal year, and sick leave with pay at the rate of ten days a year, exclusive of Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays, to be cumulative. but no sick leave with pay in excess of six months shall be granted during any one fiscal year. Sick leave shall be granted only upon satisfactory evidence of illness in accordance with the regu- lations to be prescribed by the Postmaster General: Provided, That the fifteen days' leave shall be credited at the rate of one and one- quarter days for each month of actual service." SEC. 2. This Act shall become effective as of February 1, 1939. Approved, May 15, 1939. [CHAPTER 136] AN ACT Limiting working hours of pneumatic-tube-system employees to eight in ten hours a day. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the fifth para- graph of section 116, title 39, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: "Special mechanics, general mechanics, mechanics' helpers, driver- mechanics, and garagemen-drivers in the motor-vehicle service, and employees of the pneumatic-tube system, shall be required to work not more than eight hours a day. The eight hours of service shall not extend over a longer period than ten consecutive hours, and the schedules of duties of the employees shall be regulated accordingly. In cases of emergency, or if the needs of the service require, special clerks, clerks, special mechanics, general mechanics, mechanics' helpers, driver-mechanics, and garagemen-drivers in the motor- vehicle service, and employees of the pneumatic-tube system, can be required to work in excess of eight hours per day, and for such over- time service they shall be paid on the basis of the annual pay received by such employees. In computing the compensation for such over- time the annual salary or compensation for such employees shall be divided by three hundred and six (five?), the number of working days in the year less all Sundays and legal holidays enumerated in section 119 of this title; the quotient thus obtained will be the daily compensation which divided by eight will give the hourly compen- Postal Service. 43 Stat. 1064; 45 Stat. 595. 39 U S.S . §.823. Annual leave. Sick leave. Proriso. M.onthly credit. Effective date. May 15. 1939 [IIH. 1771] [Public No. 79J Postal Service. 4:3 Slat. 10(il.
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Hours of labor. Limitation, etc., to include employees of pneumatic-tube sys- tem. Emergency over- time service. Computation of overtime pay.
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