The Civil Service Commission in its October 9 meeting made decisions on a
number of rule changes. Among these was the proposed addition of a rule creating
a basis for computation of service credit. The staff of the Commission recommended
that, since the relative weights for seniority and merit rating and the method of
determining service credit had been adopted many years ago, they should be in
cluded; the addition was made.
The OSEA did not feel that this should be done until a uniform state-wide
merit rating system was instituted by the departments of state government. This
stand, explained in another story in this issue, was not judged necessary by the
Commission.
There was, however, one change made in the rule that raised a few eyebrows
when the decision was made public. The current practice of allowing one-fourth
was revalued in closed session to one-half point. This, in essence, places more value
point credit for each month of unbroken service in a specific or comparable class
on seniority than in the former method of computation.
The Association actually has no argument with what the Commission did. The
surprise came at its rather arbitrary change in evaluation, since this issue was
not raised at the public hearing. OSEA was told in private that a stand on compar
able values would have been preferable to the one it took, but no hint was given
during the hearing that any change was contemplated in the text of the items.
The Civil Service Commission, by this action, appears to act by executive de
cision without recourse to those whose welfare it overseas. Since its staff arm did
not bring up the matter publicly, it was considered that further additions or chang
es to the proposed rule were not to be considered.
The Commission owes it to the pteople it serves to make public all contemplated
actions which affect state employees in all areas as important as service credit com
putations.
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Al Bates
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Almon Geiss
Robert Simon
OSEA and District 7 lost a pillar of
strength when E. H. “Ek” Rorick, Dir
ector of District 7 and an OSEA mem
ber since 1947, retired from state
service on September 1. Ek joined the
Department of Employment in 1941 and
EDITOR
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Elton Lafky
STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP
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showing ownership and management of
Oregon State Employee News publish
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ober 1963.
1. The name and address of the Pub
lisher is Oregon State Empployees As
sociation, 1515 State St., Salem, Oregon
97301.
2. The name and address of the Editor
is Malcolm H. MacEwan, 1515 State St.,
Salem, Oregon 97301.
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EVERY WELL-INFORMED STATE EMPLOYEE
Ruth Branch
became manager of The Dalles’ local
office in 1950.
A man of many talents, from flying
World War I Jennies to leading his
own dance band, Ek livened many OSEA
sessions with his abundance of good
humor and his willingness to let others
in on the fun.
On the serious side, Ek served his
chapter (Oregon Trail No. 35) long and
well. He was elected President, Vice-
president, and of course, was Past Pres
ident. He was in his second term as Di
rector of District 7 when he retired.
Ek was replaced on the Board of Di
rectors by Smith French of The Dalles
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Marian Johnson
Ek Rorick Retires from State Service
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— DISTRICT DIRECTORS —
District No. 1 Clifford R. Ebert
Star Route, Forest Grove
District No. 2 Carroll Allison
913 Rafael A ve., Salem
District No. 3 Cole Rivers
418 N.E. 11th St., Grants Pass
District No. 4 Max Saunders
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District No. 5 Joe Hayse
549 V alley A ve., Baker
District No. 6 J. Lloyd Le Master
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(Signed) Malcolm H. MacEwan
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