Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 59 Part 1.djvu/473

 59 STAT.] 79TH CONG. , 1ST SESS.-CH. 274-JULY 6, 1945 (q) Employees of the Railway Mail and Air Mail Services, other than railway postal clerks assigned to road duty and officers, shall be required to work not more than eight hours a day, and the eight hours of service shall not extend over a longer period than ten consecutive hours, but in cases of emergency, or if the needs of the service require, they may be required to work in excess of eight hours a day and shall be paid overtime for such additional service on the basis of 150 per centum of their annual base pay. In computing compensation for such overtime the annual salary or compensation 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 compensa- tion, and one and one-half times that amount will be the hourly rate of overtime pay. (r) In addition to the salaries provided by this Act, the Postmaster General may make travel allowances in lieu of actual expenses, at fixed rates per annum, not exceeding in the aggregate the sum annually appropriated, to railway postal clerks, and substitute railway postal clerks, assigned to road duty in railway post-office cars, and highway post-office vehicles after ten hours from the time of beginning their initial run, under such regulations as he may prescribe, and in no case shall such allowance exceed $4 per day. (s) Promotions to automatic grades shall be made at the beginning of the quarter following one year's satisfactory service in the next lower grade. Promotions to additional grades shall be made at the beginning of the quarter following the required periods of faithful and meritorious service as provided herein: Provided, That two thousand and twenty-four hours of service in a pay status shall com- prise a year's work for substitute railway postal clerks and substitute mail handlers: Provided further, That there shall be not more than one increase in the rate of pay of a substitute employee within a period of twelve months. (t) In the readjustment of the service to conform to the provisions of this Act, clerks in charge of the Railway Mail Service of grade 5 or higher shall be placed in the grades provided for their assignments. A relief clerk in charge for whom a clerk in charge assignment is not provided under this Act shall be assigned to one grade lower than the lowest grade clerk in charge in the organization to which such relief clerk in charge is assigned. RURAL DELIVERY SERVICE SEC. 17. (a) Carriers in the Rural Delivery Service shall be divided into eleven grades, with salaries based in part on specified rates per mile per annum and in part on fixed compensation per annum, as follows: For routes thirty miles or less in length served six days a week: Rates per mile Fixed compensation Grade 1, $54--- 0 Grade 2, $56- - $24 Grade 3, $58- --- 48 Grade 4, $60--- --- -72 Grade 5, $62 - 96 Grade 6, $64-- --- -- - 120 Grade 7, $66- -- 144 Grade 8, $68-- 168 Grade 9, $70--- - -- --- - 192 Grade 10, $72-- --- --- -- 216 Grade 11, $74-- - - - - - 240 455 Daily hours of serv- ice; overtime. Travel allowances. Promotions.

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