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About The Oregon state employee. (Salem, Oregon.) 1944-195? | View Entire Issue (July 1, 1948)
3 a S U A. Legislative Pregram Designed te Strengthen Civil Service and Retirement Acts supported ONLY those measures point By V irgil G. O’N eil ed to such purpose. Its Record is clean I The Oregon legislature meets next and I methods are abovÉYeproach. It January to consider and pass on bud stands for honesty, integrity, effici gets, appropriations and?.,statutory matj- ency, loyalty and merit. The public H H of concern to the welfare of, the right fullyWxpectsthese attributes from jétate. Oregon® rapid growth presents its public service^we aim to see that many problems not hitherto appreciat they are thus maintained. I ed. The cosf$ of public« service are on Administrators of , public service, the increase, the need of . expanding those who are truly interested in doing services is increasingly apparent. A a good job, are dissatisfied with present clear conception of Oregon’s proper conditions. They want steady, reliable place in the growth of the Northwest-. help and more of it. State employees, I is (needed. A full understanding of how those interested in doing a good job, are to gain that position i n essential. I also in many ways dissatisfied. They To grow in stature, Oregon’s state Want more pay and the removal of in- ¿government requires elements^similar equitiefflBoth can beljatisfied by ¿work to those required by nature in-, ¿the, . ing together! growth of a; healthy crop; good soil, The way to get good help- is by pay I good seed, nourishment, and cultivation. ing its price.-The way to M S°°d ¿In terms of governmental administra help is; to make the service attractive tion, these become: ' public service rec and to reward ^faithfulness and long-r o gnized as an honorable; career, stocked with ample qualified people, P ^ e r l ÿ evity in service. ¿paid for t h é i r and 'rewarded No Shortcut to Success Oregon had no definite policy-of em- for faithfulness and initiative. The harvest is an efficgnf personnel, ade ployer-employee relations for 86 years. quate* service to the public, economy in Oregon lags behind other states in the I government and a steady flow of people N orflt^||tj iri’’ development of its po I into public service and later- retirement tential wSRh. The state employs about into leisurely living as members’ of so- ’A 'O'OO^and sees 3,000 new employees ciety with much to cofïtribut^ thereto come ‘and GO each year! Its college graduates enter private industry, N O T but, with no need for alms tW |B om. state careers. Those who feel that the OSEA Aims and State Needs As the Oregon State Employees As Retirement Act, Civil Service" A ct and sociation comprises employees from all- i^ B e n K ” token’ ^ a v raises will fix I up. departments and from all classifications old man’ Oregon in a year or two aré H State employment, it trulyjrepre- w rongI Those who think thát. holding _sents the majority?pf ' mature thinking feTOér-agá%mpl'p^^in service, up-grad- §^nn^n§ by those who know public service re ingld^lassifications to- ' quirements best— those who’ fill them. I salaries’, holding examinations to I dis Since 1943, the OSEA policy has been c o v e r talent -and promising to "do to promote the welfarqjpf employee and something soon”—that these will fix the State, alike. It has sponsored and things— they,-also are wrong!
