Franklin D. Roosevelt

Executive Order 8931—Amendment of Paragraph 24 of Executive Order No. 1888 of February 2, 1914, as Amended, Relating to Conditions of Employment in the Panama Canal Service

November 01, 1941

By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 81 of title 2 of the Canal Zone Code, as amended by section 3 of the act approved July 9, 1937, 50 stat. 487, paragraph 24 of Executive Order No. 1888 of February 2, 1914, as amended by Executive Order No. 2514 of January 15, 1917, relating to conditions of employment in the Panama Canal service, is hereby further amended to read as follows:

"24. Absences of one-half day or more, when regularly authorized, shall be charged against annual leave. Absences due to illness or injury, when supported by the certificate of an authorized physician in the service of The Panama Canal, shall also be charged against annual leave; but no payment shall be made for time lost on account of illness due to alcoholism or drug addiction, or injury due to the wilful intention of the employee to bring about the injury or death of himself or another."

Signature of Franklin D. Roosevelt
FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

The White House,
November 1, 1941.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Executive Order 8931—Amendment of Paragraph 24 of Executive Order No. 1888 of February 2, 1914, as Amended, Relating to Conditions of Employment in the Panama Canal Service Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/372202

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