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About The Oregon state employee. (Salem, Oregon.) 1944-195? | View Entire Issue (March 1, 1945)
6 holidays,, leave of absence, vacations (Continued from Page 5) The C i v i l Service Commission is- and'sick leave and will also establish composed of three commissioners ap procedures for appeal when an employee pointed by the Governor and removable believes that he has been wrongfully by the Governor only for cause and discharged. The Act has the "open after a public hearing. The commission back door” method of dismissal of em w iilappoint the director and his staff ployees. If the employee believes that and administer the Act, making such he is. wrongfully discharged, he may ap rules as may be consistant with and peal to the Commission. If the Com necessary to carry out the provisions of mission, after a hearing, finds that the employee was discharged for racial, re the Act. The state employees affected by the ligious or political reasons, the employee A ct are referred to as classified em is reinstated, but if it finds the employee- ployees, and include alb state employees was discharged for some other reason except elected officials, m em b ’e.rs of it may recommend to the appointing boards and commissions,: heads of de authority that they reins£af@<|the dis partments, private secretaries and prin charged e m p i o y e e. The appointing cipal assistants, court attaches, legisla authority may_. or may not follow the tive assistants, those teaching in the Commission’s recommendation, but if system of higher education and the the Commission recommends reinstate deaf and blind school, physicians and ment and the employee is not reinstated, lawyers acting in t h e i r professional then the Commission will offer the em capacity, state police and a few other ployee . similar employment in another, department when a vacancy occurs.. miscellaneous exceptions. The first major problem of the com mission under the new act is the estab Approximately 250 thousand veter lishment of a classification plan, pro an placements, representing more than viding minimum requirements jfor each Jii/jOOO veteran placements a month, position and a pay plan standardization wefe made in the federal civil service rates of pay. A personnel officer may from January 1, 1943 to November;!, be designated for each department to 1944, according to an announcement cooperate with the director in carrying of the U.S.’ Civil Service Commission. out the operation of the Act.-.. This number included 4,000 placements | Employment, re - employment and of veterans with physical handicaps. promotional lists .wifi be established. Tests, some written, some written and On January- I, the Michigan State oral, some performance, tests only, will retirement system established by the be g i v e n and when the applicants qualify, they will be placed on eligible 1943 State legislature, began payment lists according to ratings received. Vet of- benefits to state employees who res erans receive the standard five and ten- tire fróm state service because of age or point preference. Provisional, seasonal disability. and temporary appointments are pro vided for. Before any employee may Out of a ttofalof 83,027 job place acquire the status of a regular employee, ments of Veterans made by the USES’ he must serve to the satisfaction of the in October, 1944, 63,233 placements departmentn head, a six - month trial were of World War II veterans. O f the service period. overall total, 12,122 of those placed I The Gommissipn will adopt rules' and were disabled servicemen of whom Î0,- regulations relative to hours o fw o rk , 529 were veterans of the present war.
