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About The Oregon state employee. (Salem, Oregon.) 1944-195? | View Entire Issue (Nov. 1, 1945)
18 employee with a "G ood,” or fully satis factory, efficiency rating to advance periodically to the maximum rate of the grade. Under the prior law, a rat ing higher than "G ood,” or fully satis factory, was required to advance be yond the middle rate of the grade. Finally, it amends the periodic within- grade advancement plan to make sure that when a veteran is reemployed in the federal service under any applicable authority of law or civil service regu lation, he will receive credit under the within-grade salary advancement law for his military service, and that he will not lose any within-grade salary advancements because o f his absence in the military service. The same amend ment applies to those who left their positions to serve in the Merchant Mar ine or on war transfer, as defined by the Civil Service Commission. Previous law permitted, within any one waiting period, one additional with in grade salary advancement for "es pecially meritorious” service. There was no method o f rewarding sustained su perior performance unless it was so outstandingly distinctive as to be classed as "especially meritorious.” O f the ap proximately 1,220,000 employees in volved, only 950 received such within- grade salary advancements in the fiscal year in 1942; only 1,575 in the fiscal year 1943; and only 808 in the fiscal year 1944. The new law authorizes one w i t h i n - grade salary advancement for superior accomplishment, in addition to any per iodic increase, within any one waiting period under standards to be promul gated by the Civil Service Commission. Minimum or H iring Kates The law, until Ju ly 1, 1945, fixed the minimum rate of the grade as the minimum or hiring rate for each class of positions in the grade. The one excep tion of this general rule, authorized in section 8 o f the W ar Overtime Pay A ct o f 1943, and mentioned below, was of too limited a scope to change the gen eral situation. The Classification A ct already pro vided, in accordance with standard po sition-classification practice, for the subdivision of grades into classes by the Civil Service Commission, according to the duties and responsibilities of posi tions. The new law adds to this author ity the power to establish for any such class a minimum rate higher than the minimum rate of the grade. The new minimum rate, which will apply both to present employees in that class and to new appointees, must be one of the standard rates o f the grade, and must not exceed the middle rate o f the es tablished statutory salary range for the grade. Furthermore, this action is to be taken only upon a finding o f the Com mission that it is warranted by the na ture of the duties and responsiblities of OREGON CULVERT & PIPE COMPANY Concrete Culvert, Sewer, Irrigation Overhead Pressure Sprinkler Systems, Corrugated Pipe and Multi-Plate (When restrictions are removed) Lancaster 4 1 4 5 2321 S.E. Gladstone Portland, Oregon I
