personnel requirements

personnel requirements Sec. 717. (a) Section 3301 of title 39, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: “§ 3301. Personnel requirements “The Postmaster General shall determine the personnel requirements of the postal field service, and fix the number of supervisors and other employees in that service, except that there may not be at any one time more than one assistant postmaster employed at any post office or a total of 70 employees assigned to salary levels 18, 19, and 20 in the postal field service.” (b) Section 1310(a) of the Act of November 1, 1951 (65 Stat. 757), as amended, which fixes a ceiling on permanent employees in the Federal Government, is amended by inserting after the word “Provided,” the following: “That increases in the number of permanent personnel in the Postal Field Service not exceeding 10 per centum above the total number of its permanent employees on September 1, 1950, shall not be chargeable to this limitation: And provided further”.