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Agency Must Do More to Achieve
Equal Opportunity, Report Says
It is the Employment Division's polity to offer
Its female employes equal employment and
promotional opportunities, but more needs to be
done by the agency before that policy is made fully
operational.
That summarizes a report issued by a Joint
Study Committee composed of employe and
management representatives. It was established
under terms of OSEA's contract with the Em
ployment Division to study and report on "Em
ployment and promotional opportunities for
women" within the agency. The study took nearly
a year to complete.
"In general," the report notes, "Employment
Division employes are satisfied with their jobs."
The agency is aware of the laws designed to
foster equal employment and affirm ative action
requirements for promotional opportunities for
female employes. It requests and expects com
pliance at all levels of supervision with the spirit
atfd intent of such laws, the report says.
Golf Tournament
Entries Due Soon
OSEA members have less than three weeks left
in which to enter the Association's tenth annual
golf tournament.
It will be held Saturday, August 18, at the
Santiam Golf Club near Stayton.
Entry fee for this year's tournament has been
raised from $6.00 to $7.00 because of an increase in
green fees. Of the $7.00 entry fee, $4.50 will be used
to pay green fees and $2.50 will go toward the cost
of lunch and prizes. The entry fee for members of
Santiam Golf Club is $2.50.
The tournament w ill begin at 6:30 a.m. Four
somes will start from the first and tenth tees.
Players w ill be divided into six flights, ac
cording to their gross score. Prizes w ill be
awarded to the winners and runners-up in each
flight.
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Despite that, however, the report says some
managers and supervisors "often have a sub
stantial amount of personal bias toward females
which works to the disadvantage of female em
ployes."
The committee found that approximately 50 per
cent of the agency's employes are female.
"However, a very high percentage of employes at
the lower salary levels are females while a very
large percentage at the executive or managerial
levels are males," thé report notes.
"Specific and in-depth training programs
regarding equal employment and promotional
opportunities for women are needed at all levels
and for all categories of employes of the agency,"
the report says.
It points out that positive and specific plans and
programs of an affirm ative action nature
"properly monitored to insure progress toward
stated goals" are considered mandatory if the
overall status of female employes is to be im
proved.
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The report notes that the Employment Division
has established specific goals and objectives for
providing equal employment and promotional
opportunities for female employes in its Plan of
Service for 1974. The agency implemented its
affirm ative action plan on July^l.
Division promotional policies and procedures are
not well understood by all employes; That,.ac
cording to the report, apparently has contributed
to some employe dissatisfaction.
"Although efforts have been made to develop
career ladders for bringing disadvantaged, and
minority employes into the agency, there is not a
sufficient amount of emphasis being placed on
similar needs for female employes, particularly
those in clerical positions," the report says.
"There is high agreement among agency per
sonnel that career ladders be developed for
clerical employes with credit toward promotion
being given for 'professional' duties performed
while in clerical positions."
T he re p o rt c o n ta in s 3V2 pages of re co m m e n d e d
a ctio n s th a t th e E m p lo y m e n t D iv is io n sho uld ta k e
to in s u re e q u a l e m p lo y m e n t a rid p ro m o tio n a l
o p p o rtu n itie s fo r Its fe m a le e m p lo ye s.
M e m b e rs w h o w a n t to e n te r th e to u rn a m e n t
sh o u ld c o m p le te th e fo llo w in g en try, fo rm a n d m a il
it to h e a d q u a rte rs a lo n g w ith t h e ir e n t r y fee:
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August 18, 1973—SANTIAM GOLF CLUB
Stayton, Oregon
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OSEA Golf Tournament
Post Office Box 2307
Salem, Oregon 97308
Please enter my name as a participant in
OSEA's tenth annual golf tournament. I |
understand the tournament will begin at 6:30 |
a.m., Saturday, August 18, at the Santiam |
Golf Club. My $7.00 fee to cover all costs is I
enclosed. (Entry fee for members of Santiam I
Golf Club is $2.50 to cover lunch and prize
costs.)
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Ross Morgan, administrator of the agency, has
implemented some of the recommendations and
taken others "under consideration."
" I regret that I have not been able to study your
report in great detail," Morgan said in a letter to
the committee, "but I feel that many of the
recommendations which were made as a result of
the study are not supported by the findings. In
some cases, they were predetermined prior to
conduct of the study."
Before implementing other recommendations,
Morgan said he wants to study and discuss them
with his supervisory staff.
Employe representatives of the committee were
Susan Redmond, Portland; Justine Beck, Salem;
and Rose Jones, Eugene. Agency representatives
included Hugh Wade, personnel; Jan Wylie,
placement technican; and George Whitney, equal
employment opportunity.
Resolutions Due Soon
Members who want to submit a resolution to the
1973 General Council have very little time left in
whichtodoso. The deadline is.August 3.
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