Executive Order 9580—Amendment of Executive Order No. 1888 of February 2, 1914, as Amended, Relating to Conditions of Employment in the Service of the Panama Canal and the Panama Railroad Company On the Isthmus of Panama

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, it is hereby ordered as follows:

SEC. 1. Paragraph 31 of Executive Order No. 1888 of February 2, 1914, as amended by Executive Order No. 2514 of January 15, 1917, is hereby amended to read as follows:

"31. Leave taken shall be paid for at the same rate as that which the employee would have received had he remained on duty during the period of leave."

SEC. 2. Paragraph 34 of the said order, as amended by Executive Order No. 2514 of January 15, 1917, is amended to read as follows:

"34. Employees shall be compensated for travel leave at the rate provided in paragraph 31 of this order."

SEC. 3. Paragraph 36 of the said order, as amended by Executive Order No. 2514 of January 15, 1917, and Executive Order No. 9467 of August 19, 1944, is further amended by adding at the end thereof the following sentence:

"The cash payment in commutation of leave under this paragraph shall equal the compensation that such employee would have received had he remained in the service until the expiration of the period of such leave."

SEC. 4. The provisions of this order shall apply to leave taken or commuted on or after the date of this order and only to such leave: Provided, however, That the provisions of this order shall not operate to reduce in any case the rate of payment for leave earned prior to the date of this order.

HARRY S. TRUMAN

THE WHITE HOUSE,

June 30, 1945