European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 12, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Servants harder to fire dung i even when then is the government printing Idun pet with Eom from citizens who ordered publications that never discovered that mom of i employee were i Toft throwing Orden the evidence we in the Truh us question was employees were responsible investigators prepared tacks of marked which be Given to designated the looting Uta Ordinary Pencil were coded in a Fly that each order Blank could be linked to particular 33 of the naked Blanks showed up to the the markings indicated they Oil had been Given to Isi Fligle whom we Ghaly Call Hul kill was suspended and u were several others ought in similar order Blanks stopped turning up in the Public complaints about a ruled enters the problem appeared to be solved Bat he nerds Edtih tight to Appeal Dumblis at there were of Hea Rufi at the Rill appealed to us civil service commission Field office in which also upheld the by Kwh Neriya year had gone Bui appealed ills time to the commissions a pals review he contended that the evidence latest him was Only circumstantial since nobody lest fled iat they actually saw him throwing away the tos time Hill the Board ordered that he be rely stated at his old Job and paid for Ibex months Afonce he we sacked the Board found that the go bad enough evidence to upend kill for the first 30 Days but said there was no Eon Desive proof that the marked orders had actually cached the original packet of 131 marked orders my passed through the hands of three being counted Only before he got any of kill was the go now has television Moni tors to Aid in watching Over employees whose Job it in to assemble orders for and officials say it is unlike there will be any repeat of the of infers from the but they also say they solve the problem in spite and not with any help from the Feder Ripen Onnel the system forced in their attempt to ensure Bat citizens would get the publications they had paid work pending the then they fired him into time getting the paperwork fret two Lew age r it Ltd they Naomiy Ftp tout to tar la a nov the to in they i Fate Ike Aad a get of mtg the raw the women wan at the tint my second level within us Oval or Elm but after is com it Toner Donald totter but to something approaching a full dress criminal trial with written briefs and motions and multiple Levels of to Agency after Federal say it became Bic my my dub my Hrc fed enl Emp Yee for Mylung Tatum mod flagrant Aad in the most recent month period for which figures an the government bed exactly at Ern ploy yes for it to million Hie manager Cay they Are hobbled not Only by Baste civil service which Are Complex and time consuming in but Aba by Union grievance and by new ant discrimination rules which give employees a Choice of several different to Appeal the same employees can Appeal denial of pay raises or other Advent an Appellant what amounts to a miniature court trial if he he can Appeal to the review if he still of sent like us outcome he can go to the three civil serv ice he May we to Federal forty percent of employees Appeal when they and appellants win in one Case out of three provided they get Uwar Appeal filed in when they win they Are twice As Likely to do so on technical grounds on the of their in one Case the postal service dismissed a year Manhattan employee after he shot a coworker in the stomach during an argument in front of the Grade station Post but the who was jailed for us appealed his firing and won reinstatement in grounds that Bosses miffed out the paperwork they signed the dismissal letter one Boss should proposed the bring and another should have approved the appeals judge the postal service was forced to give the gunman about in Back pay for the time he had been oat of would create bad precedent and Hurt Public c in the the my commission reopened the Caw and upheld the the represented by their hied and finally won in the court of which ordered women it said us tiring was too harsh a penalty for such a minor infraction by such Low level tha delays soak up tune of managers and work a hard ship in the employees who eventually win reinstatement one of the fired its us sole support of her sea dated on welfare and food tamps during the tour year appeals fight because none of the at prospective employers she contacted would someone fired by the according to her attorney Hoovert Lay their Are made Awn because at the ease Watt Whak or accuse them of am i w once accused of manager cannot be present to assist in Uwar own defense during the except to give heir own they May not lit Legal advice from government but must hire their it the decision goes against them they stand to 1 Hove a staff of a few Are very nearly m percent of us discrimination complaints reaching the appeals review Board Are ruled to be manager say they feat n fact ant to discipline bad employees or to deny them raises and promotions if they threaten to bring a for ring Button whats in it for a manager to hang even of Hes said labor department official Bert the Way the rules Are to exposes the equal Tyas a possible extortion device against Man idea behind the i Federal employees against arbitrary firing or de fou Cal a few Are very and then there Are the become so legalistic and Tim consuming that 11 is getting in the Way of efficient in the Opin Ion of Many top administration Carol Tucker former head of the consumer federation of now Heads the agriculture de part Roentz food inspection and consumer i have a Stalf of Abe Sau few Are very a few an wry then there Art the Joan a former Ralph Nader aide and now head of us Federal Auto safety Bald that civil service rules have prevented her from of flying eight key vacancies in her including the naming of a chief a oddest she says Del service have slowed Down her Agency and made k harder to recruit talented you just cant do things she an being lost on the woj ways because of Hiattt it she but to Naff t lord for minor procedural Sugarman an would encourage the use of binding f a mention to place of the More format creation of a new Merit review Board would Cut h Levels of administrative Appeal from three to Pitat Gesual say the they tit most of getting approved b oat u Yngue Otsui Iutta lop leadership for us top super Grade civil service ecu f who earn up to in a new senior exec service suggested these highly paid enjoy All its Ejob Security us kor Fiat Fate Keska fact which Admul Stratton say Der us proposal these top managers could be re i from their Job at the Bead of their u their performance la judged to be t Jey would not be but would Ibe demoted to Middle Lahka Genwyl Levels where the present Job protections Anjul Suil i they also would be allowed to earn onetime Bonus to cents of up to a percent of their annual plus Frozen and their Job tenure virtually a pm Flaby Catan vend set Wald major Donghia the Federal pay the administration already tried without to find a member of car press to sponsor a Bill to end a Legal quirk that Federal Blu Collar workers an average of t percent higher pay than for White Collar u u being proposed that key punch operators and other clerical and technical be paid under a pay male separate from that of and Man the clerical technical pay scale might also be Modi fied according to ending a system in which m per cent of such Federal workers outside Washington Are paid More than locally prevailing automatic in pay would continue every year or so for lower Ald but under one proposal would be ended for higher salaried Middle and they would be Able to get raises Only on the basis of their anther pay Inq Wittl Wood begin a Threeta Floc year program to compare Federal fringe beef its with these in private Emple meal Al f Eden pay Scales Are raised each year to keep Pace with pay in the private the system compares Only and not such increasingly important and expensive fringe benefits sick hol and paid insurance it is that such a com Parimoo would find Federal Nan tin i those in Privateer fringe More As did a cent civil service comm Aslan this would tend to put downward prenup on fed eral but Union Leaden frequently Point to some Pri Eding w vate fringe n Ore Era the trick is to owl a Way new Riog and comparing r does Tel bum thai Bear the world War b say veterans Nauvel its tie Faleai became m a treat of the would retain preference in hiring for disabled veterans or those recently but they would terminate hiring preference for military in and those whose Millry service ended Yean these would have to compete for Federal on a equal footing with who Nave Many in Are opposed to any Ai Aioo of us Given to their members in Federal hiring and february the stars and stripes Page u
