59 STAT.] 79TI CONG., 1ST SESS.-CH. 274-JULY 6, 1945 and shall be promoted successively at the beginning of the quarter following one year's satisfactory service in each grade to the next higher grade until they reach the seventh grade. BEC. 20. During the period of hostilities with Japan and for not more than thirty days thereafter, when the needs of the service require postmasters of the first, second, and third classes, post-office inspectors, traveling mechanicians, examiners of equipment and supplies, and officers of the Railway Mail and Air Mail Services, to perform service on Saturday they shall be allowed compensatory time for such service on one day within five working days next succeeding the Saturday on which the excess service was performed: Provided,That when and if required by the Postmaster General to be on duty more than forty hours a week, they shall be paid as additional pay for working such additional time of eight hours as follows: Those whose salaries are over $5,000 and not over $7,999, 5 per centum of their base annual salaries; those whose salaries are over $4,000 and not over $5,000, 10 per centum of their base annual salaries; those whose salaries are over $2,000 and not over $4,000, 15 per centum of their base annual salaries; those whose salaries are $2,000, or under, 20 per centum of their base annual salaries: Provided further, That no postmaster whose base annual salary is $8,000 or over shall receive any additional compensation for such overtime work: Provided further, That the Postmaster General may, if the exigencies of the service require, authorize the payment of overtime in lieu of compensatory time for service performed on Saturday by employees included in the provi- sions of section 3 and subsection (p) of section 16 of this Act. In computing compensation for such overtime employments the annual salary or compensation for such employees shall be divided by two thousand and eighty, the number of working hours in a year. The quotient thus obtained will be the base hourly compensation and one and one-half time that amount will be the hourly rate of overtime pay. Such overtime payments shall not be considered as part of the earned basic compensation. SEC. 21. Employees who, under laws in effect June 30, 1945, are entitled to automatic promotions in salary effective July 1, 1945, and for whom automatic promotion grades are provided in this Act, shall be given credit for their earned automatic promotion in salary before applying the provisions of sections 23 and 24 of this Act. Employees who, under the laws in effect on June 30, 1945, would have received automatic promotions in salary on October 1, 1945, or January 1, or April 1, 1946, and for whom automatic increases in salary not exceed- ing $100 per annum or 5 cents per hour, are provided in this Act, shall be given credit for the time served since their last promotion prior to June 30, 19452 in determining eligibility for automatic promotions under the provisions of this Act. SPECIAL-DELIVERY MESSENGERS SEo. 22 . (a) Where special-delivery messengers are employed on a full-time basis in offices of the first class, they shall be divided into nine grades, with annual salaries as follows: Grade 1-------------- ---- $1, 600 Grade 6--- ----------------- $2,100 Grade 2--------------------- 1,700 Grade 7----------------------- 2,200 Grade 3--
1, 800 Grade 8-------------------- 2,300 Grade 4--------------------- 1, 900 Grade 9--------------------- 2,400 Grade 5------------------ 2 000 459 Service on Saturday. Compensatory time. Additional pay. Atet, pp. 435, 44. Automatic promo. tions.
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