Specific exceptions are: discrimination in employment (see HU);
employment assistance to non-Federal personnel (see LA);
endorsements or appointments to top Federal positions (see FG);
individual employees (see Alphabetical Name
File); inventions and patents by government employees and members
of the armed forces (see BE); medals and
awards (see MA); military service personnel
(see ND); veterans, except PE 2-2 (see
VA); and White House employees (see WH
or FG).
PE: Personnel Management
Executive 575 pp. / General 45 pp.
General material on federal government employment including presidential
memos to heads of departments and agencies. Includes memoranda concerning
equal employment opportunities, position classification, the IPA Intergovernmental
Assignment Program, and abuse in the Civil Service Merit System.
PE 1: Employees Relations - Activities
Executive 450 pp. / General 100 pp.
Primarily material on standards of conduct for federal employees, conflicts
of interest, and financial disclosure; political activity and the Hatch
Act; and federal labor-management relations, especially the question of
collective bargaining rights.
PE 1-1: Blood Banks
Executive 25 pp. / General none
Material on federal employees participation in Red Cross blood drives.
PE 1-2: Political Activities - Hatch Act
Executive 100 pp. / General 25 pp.
Material on attempts to revise the Hatch Act and on its application
to federal employees, particularly members of the White House Staff.
PE 1-3: Strikes - Work Stoppages - Arbitration
Executive 25 pp. / General 35 pp.
Correspondence concerning proposals to grant collective bargaining
rights to federal employees, as well as material on the threatened postal
strike in 1975.
PE 2: Employment - Appointments
Executive 2100 pp. / General 500 pp.
Material on presidential appointments and offers of assistance and
information on questions of policy relating to federal civilian employment.
Topics include employment opportunities for women, minorities, and the
handicapped; summer student internships, including those at the White House;
the Federal Summer Employment Program; and the White House Fellows Program.
Also includes material on career-conditional appointments for cooperative
education students, non-career appointments of agency regional directors,
citizenship requirements for federal employees, revision to Standard Form
171, and federal civilian employment figures.
PE 2-1: Schedule C
Executive 1000 pp. / General 8 pp.
Primarily cross-references concerning non-career appointments in various
federal departments, agencies, boards, and commissions. Also Executive
Level and Boards and Commissions Vacancy Reports.
PE 2-2: Veterans
Executive 19 pp. / General 8 pp.
Material on federal hiring of Vietnam era veterans and veterans' preference
in Civil Service employment.
PE 3: Fair Employment
Executive 100 pp. / General 50 pp.
Material on federal employment opportunities for women and minorities.
PE 4: Health - Safety
Executive 200 pp. / General none
Material on occupational safety and health programs for federal employees.
PE 5: Hours of Duty
Executive 1 p. / General 5 pp.
Correspondence discussing the relationship between productivity and
the number of employee hours worked.
PE 6: Insurance
Executive 2 pp. / General none
Two cross-references regarding federal insurance matters.
PE 6-1: Health (Hospitalization - Medical)
Executive 1 p. / General 1 p.
Two cross-references concerning health benefits for federal employees.
PE 6-2: Life
Executive none / General 13 pp
Material relating to life insurance benefits for federal employees..
PE 7: Investigations
Executive 30 pp. / General 2 pp.
Material on employee background investigations and congressional committee
investigations, primarily cross-references.
PE 8: Leave
Executive 75 pp. / General 25 pp.
Material on the question of granting administrative leave to government
employees during the Christmas and Fourth of July holidays and to Olympic
athletes during competitions. Also memoranda on vacation plans of White
House staff members.
PE 9: Nepotism
There are no materials filed in this category.
PE 10: Payrolls - Deductions
Executive 6 pp. / General none
Cross-references concerning federal pay raises, the garnishment of
wages, and deductions for savings bonds and Social Security.
PE 11: Retirement System and Pay
Executive 300 pp. / General 90 pp.
Material on Civil Service, CIA, and Foreign Service Retirement including
correspondence and memoranda concerning cost of living adjustments, benefit
levels, and mandatory retirement. Also material relating to legislation
such as H. R. 13871, the Federal Employees Compensation Bill, S. 584 National
Guard Technicians Retirement Bill, and bills granting early retirement
benefits to non-Indian employees of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the
Indian Health Service.
PE 12: Salaries - Wages
Executive 650 pp. / General 100 pp.
Material on federal employees pay increases, including memoranda related
to Ford's attempt to defer cost of living raises for three months in October
1975; comparability of federal pay with private sector wages; cost of living
allowances and post differentials; and attempts to raise the ceiling on
executive, judicial, and legislative salaries.
PE 12-1: Cabinet
Executive 1 p. / General none
A cross-reference concerning a pay increase for the Attorney General.
PE 12-2: Congressional
Executive 80 pp. / General 30 pp.
Correspondence and memoranda concerning pay increases proposed for
members of Congress.
PE 12-3: Federal Civil Service Employees
Executive 850 pp. / General 110 pp.
Material on federal civilian salary matters including cost of living
increases, cost of living allowances for certain geographic areas, downgrading,
fringe benefits, the 1975 pay raise deferral, and pay scales for certain
groups of employees such as deputy U.S. marshals, VA medical personnel,
and air traffic controllers. Also memoranda and correspondence concerning
the Federal Employees Compensation Act (H. R. 13871), the inclusion of
certain positions in the Executive Schedule, and the 1975 report of the
President's Panel on Federal Compensation, headed by Vice President Rockefeller.
PE 12-4: Judicial
Executive 100 pp. / General 6 pp.
Correspondence and memoranda concerning proposals to raise salaries
of the federal judiciary.
PE 12-5: President
Executive 16 pp. / General 25 pp.
Material on the presidential salary and expense allowances, including
proposals that the President take a pay cut as an example in the fight
against inflation.
PE 12-6: Vice President
Executive 1 p. / General none
A cross-reference concerning pay adjustments.
PE 13: Separations
Executive 575 pp. / General 150 pp.
Material on resignations, transfers, dismissals, exemptions from mandatory
retirement, and reductions-in-force, particularly those associated with
the closing of U.S. military bases.
PE 14: Training - Orientation
Executive 1000 pp. / General 100 pp.
Primarily material on the White House Fellows Program, including applications,
recruitment letters, and memoranda concerning activities for participants.
Also items on other federal training programs such as the Federal Executive
Development Program, Executive Orientation Programs, and the Executive
Interchange Program.
PE 15: Travel - Moving Expenses - Per Diem
Executive 95 pp. / General 12 pp.
Material concerning increases in federal per diem and mileage rates
and efforts to reduce travel costs of Civil Service employees.
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