Executive Order 8997—Exemption of Certain Employees in the Field Service of the Post Office Department From Compulsory Retirement for Age

Whereas, in my judgment, the public interest requires that all employees in the field service of the Post Office Department who, during the month of December 1941, will reach the retirement age prescribed for automatic separation from the service, by reason of their becoming either 62 or 65 years of age, be exempted from compulsory retirement for age for a period of one year:

Now, Therefore, by virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 204 of the act of June 30, 1932, 47 Stat. 382, 404 (U.S.C., title 5, sec. 715a), I hereby exempt all of such employees from compulsory retirement for age for a period of one year ending December 31, 1942.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

The White House,
December 26, 1941.