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Service. The committee’s recommenda
tion was adopted.
Resolutions were submitted by La-
Grande Chapter and Library Chapter,
1. relative to the 40 hour week; 2. ad
justed wages to compensate for reduced
working hours and a five, eight-hour-
day week.
It was felt that the first resolution
covered the matter but the following
resolution was recommended for adop
tion:
BE IT RESOLVED That the Oregon
State Employees Association go on re
cord in favor of a forty hour week of
five working days without reduction in
salary.
The report was adopted.
Three resolutions regarding "ex
change time” method of compensating
monthly men for overtime worked, the
men receive a monthly wage which does
not cover overtime worked but when
overtime is worked an equivalent
amount of time off is given later, pro
viding it is taken off within a stipu
lated period of time, usually 60 days.
This period is subject to extension upon
application.
The system was described as unfair:
L When the working foreman re
ceives exchange time credit while the
crewmen receive double time pay for
overtime worked so that-the workmen
receive considerably more pay than the
foreman for the same time worked,
sometimes making the foreman the
poorest paid employee on the crew.
2. When these men must take ex
change time off at a time when the
time off is of no value to them and
often a disadvantage to the state.
It developed that the problem in
volved not only the Highway Depart
ment but also the Department of State,
Forestry, Agriculture, etc.
Remedies discussed were (a) That
the interpretation of the law be re
viewed to determine if the working
foreman was a workman or a foreman
under the law. (b) That the working
foreman be classified as a workman and
paid double time for overtime the same
as the hourly rate workmen, (e) That
employees correctly classified as fore
men be paid a wage high enough to
compensate for a reasonable amount of
overtime and the exchange time system
abandoned, (d) That the expiration
date be extended from 60 days to one
year.
As a result of the discussion the
Council adopted a resolution:
BE IT RESOLVED That the Oregon
State Employees Association take action
to secure 1. A review of the interpre
tation of the overtime and exchange
law. 2. The extension of the expiration
date for exchange, time credit. 3. The
payment of overtime to all "working”
employees.
The resolution was adopted.
Evergreen Chapter No. 28 presented
resolutions requesting the correction of
an inequality in the present system of
granting holiday leave to employees of
the Oregon State Hospital and certain
inequalities in the "Flat-W atch” duty
of certain employees of the Cottage
Farm.
The committee recommended that
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