9
Croup Insurance and Other
1907 Cains Cited In Report
By Retiring OCR A President
■ A t our last council meeting the dele-
gates adopted many resolutions which
represented a very comprehensive pro
g r a m . Your officers have Conscientious -
ly endeavored to carry out these ob
jectives. Our progress to date is sum
marized a^. follows:
I nsurance
■ Grôup Life Insurance was made
available to members of the Associa
t i o n by thé’ Legislature *^hen they ap
p ro v e d our, request to have such pay-
M ien t^m ad e;.as a payroll deduction. A
contract has been entered into w ith the
West Coast/Life Insurance Company;
Some chapters I have already qualified
and their, members w ho requested it are
now covered. This part of our; insur
a n c e program should be completed5
by the end of this year. We hope that'
by th at tim e . arrangements Can be
made to make this insurance available
to every member who desires I this type
of coverage. I
K H ô p ita l and Medical Coverage is
^available to ‘State Employees under a
contract between Oregon Physiçïahir
Service and Oregon Employee,^ I Inc.
■This coverage is also’available to High-
¿way Department employees under a.
contract w ith the National Hospital
Association. N o progress has been made
relative to securing Family Hospital
and Medical Coverage. Under the con
tr a c ts Available the cost has appaered
■to be -excessive and the coverage re
stric ted .
I It p recommended that this phase of
our insurance program be reinvesti
g a te d and th a t'th e best contract ob-
■tainable be entered into so that it can
be made available; to ohose who w ish.it.
RETIREM ENT
The Legislature did not approve our
requests to amend the Retirement A ct
by thevfemoyal of the limitation on the
prior service c r edi t and the Sit ates
matching of employee’s contribution.
They did approve our request to
amend, the A ct to provide th at before
an employee can become éligible to
membership on the system he m ust be
employed for a period of six months.
The amendment which resulted in
the State matching the first $2,400.00
of the en£plòyee?s salary was not spon
sored tby your. Association. It was re
quested to permit those teachers w h o
áre paid on less than twelve / m onth
basis to enjoy the full benefit of the
matching contribution made by the
employer.
The Legislature was, reluctant to
make any major changes to the Re
tirement j |c t for the reason th at the
Act had not yet- become fully opera
tive I and there was no way to deter
m iné'accurately the cost of the changes
which we proposed. They indicated
that at the next session serious consid
eration jwbúlq, be given to our fe-
quests.
As all matters pertaining to retire
ment affect4 every. State employee and
m ust’^receive Legislative approval, it
appeals mandatory th at we have an ac-
riveT' Retirement Committee function
ing during the coming year; In addi
tion to the resolutions pertaining to the
removal of the limitations on prior ser
vice and matching of employee contri
butions, wé have received several reso
lutions requesting that the disability
benefits be increased. This Committee
can greatly assist the Legislative Coin-
mittefe by' obtaining information rela
tive to the estimated cost to the State
of our requests. They could also work