Hiring Squeeze May Come
1,000	employes a day would go on a strict hiring diet next month under an option that the Senate may adopt in its down-to-the-wire search for a pre-Christmas deficit reduction promise to the stock market.</br></br>The reduced hiring plan, drafted by Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), would limit most agencies to replacing only one of every three workers they lose because of resignation, retirement or death. Such a limited hiring freeze, if approved by Congress, would last through next October.</br></br>Some agencies, such as the Internal Revenue Service, would be exempt. But most would be required to slim down to reduce payroll costs.</br></br>StevensÛª proposal is designed to meet spending cuts agreed on at a White House-congressional summit. The cuts would be in lieu of even tougher across-the-board reductions that would go into effect if Congress and the president donÛªt approve a specific spending plan soon.</br></br>The hiring reduction is the latest in a number of proposals to cut federal personnel spending by $1.7 billion this year and in fiscal 1989.