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About The Oregon state employee. (Salem, Oregon.) 1944-195? | View Entire Issue (Nov. 1, 1947)
7 Civil Service Handbook Ready Soon; Big Turnover in State Employees | An employees handbook of Civil Ser- vice information is now in preparation and is expected to be in print some t i m e in February. " It is designed to serve employees on the job, and to pro v i d e guidance and information for new employees,” explains Gene Huntley, head of the Research and Training pro- tr a m . " It w ill'also be sent to other states and cities to give general infor- mation about our civil services prac tic e s .” The tentative outline includes information I about personnel policies,; the classification and pay plans, leaves, Bx. .Personnel Actions Tabulated B From the Civil Service monthly sta- tistics sheets there are always interesting' figures to be noted. During September and Qctober, 1579 new employees were hired for state service. During this same period, 884 employees resigned. O f this plum ber 620 .resigned in September. Two hundred and four of the latter, left to return to school, 168 gave no reasons or miscellaneous personal ones, 119 left to take other positions (prob ably with higher salaries), 33 were dis satisfied with their job conditions other than salaries and 29 left for health reasons. Eight of these 29, freed them selves . to care for sick relatives and friends. Dismissals for unsatisfactory work during these; two months totaled 91. Ingrade Increases Received Employees who received increases to their minimum salary steps' on March EH 1947 were-: eligible for increases in September. There were 1390 ingrade in creases irf' September and 167 in O cto ber. For these" two months^ there were 334 promotional increases and 120 de- motional decreases. Most of the latter were voluntary demotional transfers to positions which will lead to fùture ad vances in spite of a 7temporary loss of salary level. Examinations Supervisor Named ■ As a result of promotional and open competitive personnel examinations given in the last few months, Mark Hillary, Portland, and W a rn e N u n n and Gene Huntley, Salem,, have been appointed or promoted to positions in the State Civil Service Department. I Mark Hillary has bee nappointed to the new position of Supervisor of Ex aminations. Hillary is a graduate of the University of Kentucky with a doc to r ’s degree in Industrial Psychology from the University of Vienna., Leav ing the Army as a Lt.-Col., he held a succession of personnel positions in the A djutant General department, as D ir ector of Classifications, Chief of O ffi cer Branch, Assistant Chief Personnel Auditor, and Director of Education. In addition he served for a year as Chief of the Latin American Section in as signment of Military Attaches. Mr. Hillary’s most recent civilian, employ ment was as an industrial psychologist for General Motors Corporation and Dow Chemical. He entered the military service jn 1940. Previous to that, H il lary was instructor of psychology at the University of Vienna preparing , and presenting the lectures of Drs. Freud, Adler and Jung to English speaking students,i Warne N unn has been promoted to Supervisor of Classification and Pay as a result ofj the promotional examin ation. N unn is a graduate of Willam ette University, and held various per sonnel positions with the Farm Secur ity Administration until his entry into the A rm y in 1942. He served with the A.A.F. in charge of a personnel sec tion. N unn has been employed in, the
