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Your President Comments
By BJARNE ERICKSEN
The recent announcement that in the future most of the state employees
will be'permitted to' work a 40 hour, 5 day week marks the attainment of another
specific objective of your Association!' In securing I this objective, we were mate
rially assisted by the active support of many of the administrators. Most of the
administrators supported your Association’s request for the 40 hour, 5 day week
because they believed that it would increase efficiency and economy in the State
service; that it vrOuld promote a high
Your Association is vitally concerned
morale among th(é' employees; arid that
with a constructive administration by
it would .'assist ih thè recruitment and
the Civil Service Commission because
'^retention of desirable employees.
That the recruitment and retention we played an important part in secur
Era employees is a pressing problem is ing approval of the legislation which
shown by the fact that during the first created it. We believe-that if State Civil
three months of this .yea.r 1,296 em Service is to be a success, its Rules and
ployees have /left state;. servici Such Regulations should provide for good
turnover in employment indicates many tyorking conditions; tha tWits. compen
things', among them the attractive .in sation plan should provide for wage
ducements offered by positions 'outside . sd^e$'that are at least on a parity with
of sta,te?sérvice. Also, it is an indication those paid in private industry; and that
Ito th e thoughtful that in-service train through merit rating^ properly admin
in g renders benefit to state service only istered, the public may I be served by
in the proportion that trained and ef efficient and courteous employee,s. We
ficient employees are encodraged to re also, feel that enforcement of and com
pliance With proper rules and regula
main in state' service. .
It is'-iintferesting to note' that the tions’ js important, in , the interest of
factors -which prompted the adminis uniformity arid impartiality. Coopera
trators to support and. make effective tion between administrators, employees
and "the? Civil Service Commission is
our 5 day, 40 hour work week request
•are. incorporated in the Civil 'Service’' desirable; agreement between them is',
Commission Rules and Regulations, as essential.
During the irion th of June it is ex
a part of its general statement óf policy?.!
We of the O. S. E..A. will always be pected"-that all of the gMployees in the
gratified ^ 9 observe I thè 'Civil Serviced •clarified service will receive their merit
QommiSsipfi acting in its duties to pro .ratings./T^o most of us it. will be our
mulgate and effectuate th e ‘ interits of first- experience with this important
•the/ 'Civil Service Acti It is qur hope phase of Civil Service! j t is your As
sociation’s desire that the persons in
that the Commission' will at all times
realize that Oregon must keep in step authority will fairly and conscientiously
prepare the ratirigs. When this is done,
with modern trends and scientific meth-
dds in ^ ’■'tre^tfrierit of its employees the employee can be informed of any
in Order that good public isè^y'ice '^vill deficiency in order that he ;can correct
be rendered the people of' Oregon. We it. It also affords an opportunity for
express the belief that thè initiation of the administrators to acknowledge the
outstanding work being done by the
good policies in personnel I matters
should come from the Commission, and majority’of the employees. 9
that they will constructively apply
'W e sincerely believe that the con
themselves to administer the Act to its scientious preparation of the merit rat-
fullest intent.
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