Chapter 396. Providing for Saturday half holidays for certain Government employees
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CHAP. 396.— An Act Providing for Saturday half holidays for certain Government employees. March 3, 1931.[[S. 471](/us/bill/71/s/471).][[Public No. 783](/us/pl/71/783).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Saturday half holidays.Authorized for certain Government employees.[U. S. C., p. 29, amended](/us/usc/29).Pay or earnings.Vol. 30, p. 316. That on and after the effective date of this Act four hours, exclusive of time for luncheon, shall constitute a day’s work on Saturdays throughout the year, with pay or earnings for the day the same as on other days when full time is worked, for all civil employees of the Federal Government and the District of Columbia, exclusive of employees of the Postal Service, employees of the Panama Canal on the Isthmus, and employees of the Interior Department in the field, whether on the hourly, per diem, per annum, piecework, or other *Provisos.*Compensatory leave.basis: *Provided*, That in all cases where for special public reasons, to be determined by the head of the department or establishment having supervision or control of such employees, the services of such employees can not be spared, such employees shall be entitled to an Employees not deprived of leave, etc.equal shortening of the workday on some other day: *Provided further*, That the provisions of this Act shall not deprive employees of any leave or holidays with pay to which they may now be entitled under existing laws.
Approved, March 3, 1931.