Chapter 206. To provide a shorter work week for postal employees, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 206.— An Act To provide a shorter work week for postal employees, and for other purposes. February 17, 1931.[[H. R. 6603](/us/bill/71/hr/6603).][[Public, No. 672](/us/pl/71/672).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Postal employees.Shorter work week for, provided.Vol. 43, p. 1059, amended. That when the needs of the service require supervisory employees, special clerks, clerks, and laborers in first and second class post offices, and 1165employees of the motor-vehicle service, and carriers in the City Designated services in excess of four hours on Saturday given compensatory time.Delivery Service and in the village delivery service, and employees of the Railway Mail Service, to perform service in excess of four hours 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*, *Provisos*.Compensatory time for Sunday and holiday employment.That employees who are granted compensatory time on Saturday for work performed the preceding Sunday or the preceding holiday shall be given the benefits of this Act on one day within five working days following the Saturday when said compensatory time was granted: *Provided further*, That the Postmaster General may, if the Overtime in lieu of compensatory time at close of calendar year.exigencies of the service require it, authorize the payment of overtime for service in excess of four hours on the last three Saturdays in the calendar year in lieu of compensatory time: *And provided further*, Railway clerks assigned to road duty.That for the purpose of extending the benefits of this Act to railway postal clerks the service of said railway postal clerks assigned to road duty shall be based on an average not exceeding seven hours and twenty minutes per day for three hundred and six days per annum, including a proper allowance for all service required on lay-off periods as provided in Post Office Department circular letter numbered 1348, dated May 12, 1921; and railway Overtime payments in cash, etc.postal clerks required to perform service in excess of seven hours and twenty minutes daily, as herein provided, shall be paid in cash at the annual rate of pay or granted compensatory time, at their option, for such overtime.
This Act shall take effect at the beginning of the Effective date.second quarter after its passage. Approved, February 17, 1931.