BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING left up to the Director of Public Rela
tions, to be sanctioned by the Execu
-'(Continued from page .3 J.-'
amending the law. He- suggested that tive Secretary.
Mr. Stewart told of his trip to Eu
all I state employees covered, by the
exception to the law, be omitted, and gene to instigate a chapter at the Uni-
that a new amendment including all versity of Oregon. He told the members
state eirtployees .be written into the law. that his progress had been favorable
A motion^ was adopted referring the and that he hoped tp.'have something
matter to the Legislative* Committee to definite in thé very near future.
work out an amendmentI •. to. conform
There being no further business the
to the resolution.
Board of Directors. meeting adjourned.
It was the opinion rtf the members
that we should take no action on the POSTWAR WAGE AND SALARY
matter of blanketing in of all em
ployees with conditional .status; under ADJUSTMENTS: California
Civil Service. If such a bill is intro
In June of 1946 the State personnel
duced, it was decided that we make it Board, an administrative -body, took
known that this particular bill is not
our bill. It was agreed that the prin two salary" actions affecting "State em
ciple of the Civil Service Law regard ployees, The first was incorporating a
$25-20 emergency- salary adjustment
ing veterans should be upheld.
into
the base. salary ranges for state
Mr. DeFrance, chairman of the Law
and Legislation Committee, named the employees. All employees who received
other members of his committee. They a salary base of less than $'3-00 had a
are: Claud? M. Johns, W. F. Leary, $25 war emergency added to'their base.
All employees who'received a base sal
Floyd Query and Bob Glenn-
ary of over $300 had a $20 war emer
Virgil O’Neil, chairman of the Pub gency adjustment added to their range.
lic Relations Committee, submitted the The original $25-20" war emergency-
following names as members of ;hjs- authorization; was-made by the Legisla
committee: Elizabeth Dotson, Ellis H.
ture prior to December;, 1945.
Jones, Cecil'.Head and Max F. Rogers.
At this time the State Personnel
The matter of revising the contract Board also approved a, $10 salary ad
to be submitted to our legal counsel justment for all state employees whose
was discussed and the proper corrections -base salary range was under $400. Both
made,
of the above salary adjustments are now
It was suggested that all chapters- be part of the permanent salary structure.
notified of the extent of our legislative
The State Personnel Board has estS^x
prograin and that each, item involved lished a pay staff that, devotes its time
be submitted with basic reasons so that to studying and recommending adjust
the chapters will be able to talk to their ments for state classifications that are
various legislators and enumerate Just
out of line with prevailing rates- being
what we are doing.
paid for comparable positions in Cali
A letter from the U..C.C.;in Portland fornia. This study has resulted in ad
was read. It requested a charter be justments for more than 560 state
granted employees of that department classes this year,, At the present time
for affiliation with the Oregon State there are no general statewide salary ad
Employees Association. A motion was justments under , study, but ^individual
adopted that a charter be granted this classes are still receiving attention.
group.
Wartim eand Postwar Pay Adjustments
The topic of publicity was discussed for State Employees. Council of State
and it was decided that this should be Governments. October, 1946.