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 7 4TH CONGRESS. SESS. II, CH. 140 . MARCH 14, 1936. 116 1 [CH AP TER 140.1 AN ACT March 14, 1936. To provide for vacations to Government employees, and for other purposes. [H. R . 8458 .] [Public, loo. 471.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House o f Representatives o f the United States o f America in Congress assembled, That with the vacations to Govern- exception of teachers and librarians of the public schools of the m Excep pons . District of Columbia and officers and emp loyees of the Panama Canal and Panama Railroad on the Isthmus of Panama, and except as provided in section 4 hereof, all civilian officers and employee s of the United States wherever stationed and of the government of the District of Columbia, regardless of their tenure, in addition to any accrued leave, shall be entitled to twenty-six days' annual leave with pay each calendar year, exclusive of Sundays and holidays : Pro- Proviso. r d lease ; vided, That the part unused in any year shall be accumulated for maximum, succeeding years until it totals not exceeding sixty days. This Act leavePplicable to si ck shall not affect any sick leave to which employees are now or may Post, p. 1162. hereafter be entitled. Temporary employees, except temporary eea Temporary employ- employees engaged on construction work at hourly rates, shall be entitled to two and one-half days leave for each month of service. The annual leave herein authorized shall be granted at such times as the heads of the various departments and independent establish- ments may prescribe. This Act becomes effective January 1, 1936. Effective date. SEC. 2 . Each head of a department or independent establishment Regulations. shall is sue general public regulatio ns, not inconsistent with law , setting forth the hours of duty per day and per week for each group of emplo yees. . Befo re is suing such regu lati ons, which shal l be issu ed Interdepartmental within three months from the date of approval of this Act, the heads conference. of departments and independent establishments shall meet and con- sult among themselves and make such regulations as nearly uniform as possible so that all employees, temporary or permanent, in all departments and independent establishments shall receive like treat- ment as nearly as may be practicable : Prov ide d, That heads of p~afting subcommit- departments and independent establishments may appoint a subcom- tee. mittee to draft such regulations. SEC. 3. Each head of a department or independent establishment Record of overtime work. shall keep a record of all work performed, in excess of the work required by departmental regulations issued in conformance with section 2 hereof, for the period commencing July 1, 1936 and ending December 31, 19 36, and shall report same to the Civil Service Com- mission at the end of each month. The Civil Service Commission Report to congress. shall make a report of such record to the Congress on or before January 31, 1937. SEC. 4 . Nothing in this Act shall affect the Postmaster General Post Office Depart- and officers and emplo yees in or under the Post Of fice Department : me nt not affected. Pro vid ed, T hat officers and employees in the departmental service Es ov Provisoo ns . a a n d i n t h M a i l E q u i p m e n t S of the Post Office Depart shall be included within the provisions of this Act. SEC. 5 . Nothing in this Act shall be construed to prevent the con- se rv ice outside co n- tinuance of any existing leave differential now obtaining for the tinental limits . benefit of employees of the Federal Government stationed outside the continental limits of the United States. S EC. 6. The em ployees of any corporation c reated under authority 6 ° Federal, etc., corpora- of an Act of Congress which is either wholly controlled or wholly owned by the United States Go vernment, whether or not the employ- ees thereof are paid from fun ds appropriated by Congress, shall be included within the provisions of this Act.