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PUBLIC LAW 68-JUNE 10, 1955

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(c) Section 602 of this Act does not apply to employees in post offices of the third class. (d) The provisions of section 603 of this Act relating to compensatory time and overtime compensation for work on Saturdays or Smidays do not apply to hourly rate regular employees and to employees in post offices of the third class. SUBSTITUTE EMPLOYMENT

SEC. 606. (a) Subject to subsection (c) of this section, the Postmaster General shall prescribe the conditions under which substitute positions may be established. (b) Each substitute, hourly rate, and temporary employee who reports for duty in compliance with an official order shall be employed for not less than two hours following the hour at which such employee is ordered to report. (c) I n the case of positions which are the same as or equivalent to the positions enumerated in the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the appointment of substitute postal employees, and for other purposes", approved June 4, 1936, as amended (39 U.S.C. sec. 834), the ratio of classified substitute employees to regular employees shall not be more than one classified substitute to five regular employees or fraction thereof with respect to each such position, except that in offices having fewer than five regular employees there may be one substitute clerk and one substitute carrier, and one substitute in the motor vehicle service. EMPLOYEES

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SEC, 607. (a) The Postmaster General shall organize the work of employees in the Postal Transportation Service who are assigned to road duty into regularly scheduled tours of duty. Such tours of duty shall aggregate an average of not more than eight hours a day for two hundred and fifty-two days a year, including an allowance of one hour and thirty-five minutes for work to be performed on layoff periods. He shall not grant allowances of time for work performed on layoff periods to employees other than employees engaged in the distribution of mail. (b) Employees in the Postal Transportation Service assigned to road duty, except substitute employees, who are required to perform work in excess of the scheduled time of their regular tours of duty as established by the Postmaster General shall be paid at the rate of 150 per centum of their hourly basic compensation for such overtime work. In arriving at the amount of overtime to be paid at any time during the calendar year, any deficiencies accrued up to that time during the same calendar year shall be offset against any overtime work by the employee. (c) Substitute employees in the Postal Transportation Service assigned to road duty shall be paid on an hourly basis for actual work performed according to the time value of each trip of such road duty, mchiding an allowance of time for all work required on layoff periods. (d) 111 addition to compensation provided under this Act, the Postmaster (lieneral, under regulations prescribed by him, may pay not more than $9 per day as travel allowances in lieu of actual expenses, at fixed rates per annum or by such other method as he deems eciuitable to regular and substitute employees in the Postal Transportation Service who are assigned to ro.ad duty, after the expiration of ten hours from the time the initial run bearins.

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