Public Law 74–535

That when the needs of the service require supervisory employees, special clerks, clerks, and laborers in first- and second-class post offices, and employees of the motor-vehicle service, and carriers in the City Delivery Service and in the village delivery service, and employees of the Railway Mail Service, clerks at Division Headquarters of Post office Inspectors, employees of the Stamped Envelope Agency and employees of the mail equipment shops; cleaners, janitors, telephone operators, and elevator conductors, paid from appropriations of the First Assistant Postmaster General; and all employees of the Custodial Service except charwomen and chairmen and those working part time, to perform service 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

Provisos.

Sunday and holiday employment.

performed: Provided, 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

Overtime in lieu of compensatory time; exception.

such compensatory time was granted: Provided further, That the Postmaster General may, if the exigencies of the service require it, authorize the payment of overtime for service on the last three Saturdays in the calendar year in lieu of compensatory time, except cleaners, janitors, telephone operators, and elevator conductors paid from the appropriation of the First Assistant Postmaster General, and custodial employees who shall be given compensatory time in lieu of overtime pay within thirty days next succeeding: 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 6 hours and 40 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 postal clerks

Cash payment or compensatory time optional.

required to perform service in excess of six hours and forty 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.

Sec. 2.

The ratio of substitute post-office clerks, substitute city

Ratio of substitutes limited.

letter carriers, substitute laborers, substitutes in the motor vehicle service, and substitutes in the Railway Mail Service shall be not more than one substitute for eight regular employees: Provided ,

Provisos.

Proportion in larger offices.

That at post offices with receipts of more than $500,000 per annum, and less than $10,000,000 per annum, the ratio of substitutes shall not be more than one substitute for ten regular employees:Provided further, That at post offices with receipts of less than $500,000

Offices with receipts less than $.500,000.

the ratio shall be not more than one substitute for twelve regular employees, and at offices having less than twelve employees one substitute shall be provided: Provided further, That where the ratio

Establishment of ratios.

of substitutes on the date of the enactment of this Act is in excess of the ratio provided for herein no additional substitutes shall be appointed until these ratios are established: And provided further,

No regular substitute to be furloughed, etc.

That the provisions of this Act shall not operate to furlough or dismiss any regular substitute.

Sec. 3.

This Act shall take effect October 1, 1935.

Effective date.