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Federal Civil Service Regulations
A t the annual council meeting in
February of this year, the delegates
passed, unanimously, a resolution rec
ommending that when the Oregon
Civil Service Commission prescribe uni
form rules and regulations pertaining
to hours, working conditions, vacations
and sick leave, that such rules and
regulations, whenever possible, be the
same as those prescribed by the United
States Civil Service Commission for
Federal employees.
The Oregon State Employees Asso
ciation is not activated by purely sel
fish motives in this matter and point
out that the welfare of the State itself
is involved. A t the present time there
are more Federal employees working in
Oregon than there are State employees
and many of these are engaged in the
performance of the same kind of work.
(Congressional Digest reports that as
of June 30, 1944, there were 18,762
Federal employees working in Oregon.
O f these numbers 10,110 were employ
ed in war agencies.) The present wide
difference in working conditions and
salaries in favor of the Federal em
ployee is operating to the detriment of
the State service, and will eventually
reduce the State service to a level of
mediocrity and incompetence. Every
citizen of the state should be aware of
this hazard and realize that incompe
tence in the state service will in time
undermine the states independence by
limiting its ability to carry out its gov
ernmental functions, and will more and
more force the State to look to the
New Ideas and Improved
Methods
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certificates, medals, and increase in pay
to employees whose suggestions are ac
cepted.
Federal government for assistance and
guidance.
To acquaint those interested with
main provisions of the Federal rules
and regulations, a summary has been
made from the most current regulations
available. This summary is not intended
to represent a complete and authorita
tive report of all of the Federal Civil
Service rules and regulations, as some
of the departments are subject to spe
cial laws and rules, and recent amend
ments may have extended the benefits
enjoyed by the Federal employees.
BASIC W ORK W EEK consists of
40 hours not to extend over more than
six of any seven consecutive days.
Heads of departments establish the dis
tribution of the hours of the work
week. The Federal Executive Depart
ment expressed the desire that when-l
ever practicable the basic work w e e lc
of forty hours should spread over the
first five days of the administrative
work week. In conformity with this
recommendation Federal offices, as a
general rule, are closed on Saturdays
and Sundays.
Y EA RLY RA TES OF COM PEN
SATIO N are regarded as payment for
employment during 52 basic adminis
trative work weeks of forty hours each.
A monthly rate is multiplied by 12
to derive an annual rate; an annual rate
is divided by 52 to derive a weekly
rate; a weekly rate is divided by 40 to
derive an hourly rate; and a daily rate
is derived by multiplying an hourly
rate by the number of daily hours o f\^ ^
service required.
A i.
PAY PERIODS cover two adm inis-^^
trative work weeks.
N IG H T W ORK has a pay differen
tial of ten percent increase over the
basic rates of compensation when such
work is a regular scheduled tour of
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