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 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 274-JULY 6, 1945 [59 STAT. to the next higher grade following appointment to a regular position. (m) Substitute railway postal clerks shall be credited with full time while traveling under orders of the Department to and from their designated headquarters to take up assignments, together with actual and necessary travel expenses, not to exceed $4 per day, while on duty away from such headquarters. When a substitute railway postal clerk performs service in a railway post office or highway post office start- ing from his official headquarters, he shall be allowed travel expenses under the law applying to clerks regularly assigned to the run. (n) Mail handlers in the Railway Mail Service shall be divided into six grades, with annual salaries as follows: Grade 1--- $1,600 Grade 4_-- $1, 900 Grade 2- 1, 700 Grade 5-- 2,000 Grade 3-- 1, 800 Grade 6-- 2, 100 and shall be promoted successively to grade 6 following one year's satisfactory service in the next lower grade. (o) Substitute mail handlers in the Railway Mail Service shall be paid hourly rates as follows: Grade 1-- $0. 79 per hour Grade 4-- $0.94 per hour Grade 2--- .84 per hour Grade 5 - .99 per hour Grade 3-- . 89 per hour Grade 6--- 1 .04 per hour Service on Satur- days, Sundays, or holidays. Compensatory time. December, overtime payment. Railway postal clerks assigned to road duty. Service basis. Overtime computa- tion. and shall be promoted successively to grade 6 following one year's satisfactory service in the next lower grade: Provided, That when a substitute mail handler is appointed to a regular position, such employee shall be assigned to a salary grade corresponding to the salary grade as a substitute and any fractional part of a year's service accumulated since the last promotion shall be included with the serv- ice as a regular employee in determining eligibility for promotion to the next higher grade following appointment to a regular position. (p) When the needs of the service require employees of the Railway Mail and Air Mail Services, other than railway postal clerks assigned to road duty and officers, to perform service on Saturdays, Sundays, or holidays they shall be allowed compensatory time for such service within five working days next succeeding the Saturday or Sunday, and on one day within thirty days next succeeding the holiday: Provided, however, That the Postmaster General may, if the exigencies of the service require, authorize the payment of overtime for services per- formed on the Saturdays, Sundays during the month of December, and on Christmas Day in lieu of compensatory time: Providedfurther, That the service of railway postal clerks assigned to road duty shall be based on an average of not exceeding eight hours daily for two hundred and fifty-three days per annum, including allowances for all service required on lay-off periods, and such allowances shall be not less than fifty minutes per day for two hundred and fifty-three days per annum for clerks assigned to class A runs and not less than one hour and thirty-five minutes per day for two hundred and fifty-three days per annum for clerks assigned to class B runs, and railway postal clerks assigned to road duty required to perform service in excess of an average of eight hours daily for two hundred and fifty-three days shall be paid for such overtime service on the basis of 150 per centum of the annual rate of pay received by such employees. In computing compensation for such overtime employment, the annual salary or compensation for such employees shall be divided by two thousand and twenty-four, the number of working hours in a year. The quotient thus obtained will be the base hourly compensation and one and one- half times that amount will be the hourly rate of overtime pay. 454

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