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The Nome Nugget
Nome, Nome County, Alaska
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The U.S. Civil Service Commission announced that approximately 10,000 federal civilian jobs in Alaska, primarily in defense, interior, commerce, agriculture, and postal departments, have been integrated into the competitive Civil Service System this week, affecting employee statuses and future hiring.
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WASHINGTON, (A)—The Civil Service Commission announced yesterday that about 10,000 civilian federal positions in Alaska were put under the competitive Civil Service System this week.
Most of the jobs are in the Depts. of Defense, Interior, Commerce, Agriculture & Post Office.
Incumbent employes who are recommended to the commission by their agency and who can meet the qualifications will be given their proper status under the career-conditional appointment system which went into effect last January.
Employes who previously had earned competitive status in other federal employment may become career employes in their positions solely by action of the employing agency.
Those employes who are not given career status through either of those methods will become "status quo" employes. They will retain their positions and grades but will not have full job retention rights of career or career-conditional employes in the event of reductions in force.
Future job vacancies will be filled under the competitive system. A Civil Service Commission branch office has already been set up in Anchorage, the commission said. It added that boards of Civil Service examiners have been created in Juneau, at Ladd Air Force Base in Fairbanks, and in Anchorage.
The commission said the action in Alaska was a major step in putting into effect plans announced months ago for extending competitive Civil Service to about 35,000 federal civilian positions in Alaska, Guam, and foreign countries.
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Alaska
Event Date
This Week
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incumbent employees recommended and qualified will receive career-conditional status; those with prior status become career employees; others become status quo employees without full retention rights; future vacancies filled competitively; civil service offices established in anchorage, juneau, and fairbanks.
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The Civil Service Commission announced that about 10,000 civilian federal positions in Alaska, mostly in Departments of Defense, Interior, Commerce, Agriculture, and Post Office, were placed under the competitive Civil Service System. This is a major step toward extending the system to 35,000 positions in Alaska, Guam, and foreign countries.