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The OSEA News
October 13,1977
'Domestic worker* trust fund to be divided
Female custodial employes of
18 state agencies and state
college and university cam
puses will share a trust fund of
over $400,000 as a result of a
conciliation agreement between
OSEA, the Justice Department
and the Commissioner of Labor.
This agreement brings to a
close a legal hassle which
resulted
from
a
sex
discrimination suit brought
several years ago by OSEA and
female custodial workers in the
System of Higher Education
who were then classified as
“domestic workers.”
A consent decree reached in
1974 started the trust fund of
back wages but they were never
paid because of a pending suit
brought by the National League
of Cities which, when it was
decided by the U.S. Supreme
Court a year ago, said that the
Fair Labor Standards Act did
not apply to states and local
governments. However, federal
courts have since decided that
the equal pay for equal work
Commit fee rosters
This is a roster of appointments made
at the Oct. 8 Board meeting to OSEA
committees:
Executive Committee
Marie Grant, chairman; Jon Lucke,
Fred Tolleson, Martha Brown, Dale
Meyers and G. Louis Roberts.
STANDING COMMITTEES
Employe Benefits
Mary Laski, chairman; Dick Downs,
June Blakley, Marie Maynard, Phil
Deas, Melvin Jones, Hazel Brown and
Mary Foster, advisory member.
Employe Representation
David George, chairman; Pat Frahler,
Robert Gourley, Richard O. Young, Bill
Thompson, Donna Bowers, James Wilson
and Alleta Hill and Gary Lorenz, ad
visory members, and Lynn Della,
recording secretary.
Association Operations
Fred Tolleson, chairman; Jon Lucke,
Sherry Carranza, Ken Stueve and Sandi
Hadley and Pat Daniel, advisory
member, and LeAnn Gilmer, recording
secretary.
Membership Relations
Sandi Adams, chairman; Eva Barnes,
Marge Berninghausen, Tom Wells,
Victor Soto, Harry Marshall and Mildred
Peterson and Peggy Cain, advisory
members.
SPECIAL STANDING COMMITTEES
Academic and Unclassified
Frank Adams, chairman; and Robert
Longanecker and Pat Wells and G.
Jeannette Masilionis, advisory mem
bers.
Affirmative Action
Glenette Olvera, chairman; Raymond
Barber, James Kelly, Sarah Creighton-
Hargrove, Patricia Brewington and Bill
Kerlee.
Building Feasibility Study
Fred Tolleson, chairman; Wally Sch
midt, Gary Strausbaugh, Earl Kleeh,
Ron Forest and Arnold Goldberg.
Staff Screening
Marc Feldsman, chairman; Earl
Beier, Russ Heinemann and Bill Brad
shaw.
Trust Fund Study
Morton Shapiro, Bill Wyatt and Phil
Deas.
Other committees will be listed as their
rosters are completed.
babysitting
guide
this page touches on only a few of the
many important matters that a person
has to know if he wants to take good care
of children.
5. name and address and telephone number
of close relative
provisions still apply. That
seemed to free up the * trust
money until the Oregon Justice
Department decided to appeal
the decision. In the new con
ciliation agreement, the state
agrees to drop its appeal of the
federal case.
The
new
conciliation
agreement does several other
things. It disposes of any or all
of the equal pay for equal work
cases which arose out of the
original suit. (The domestic
worker classification has been
eliminated; this is for back
pay.)
In addition, 10 people were
left off the original consent
decree; this agreement in
cludes them.
The new agreement gives the
labor commissioner $57,000 to
disperse in an effort to equalize
all payments. The original
agreement had specific dollar
amounts next to an individual’s
name. The rule used in the first
agreement was to pay each
employe a certain percentage of
two years’ pay. The com
missioner will use the $57,000 to
see that everyone covered
receives that same percentage
of two years’ pay.
Also, the new conciliation
agreement covers the whole
period from Aug. 22, 1969, to
Aug. 1, 1974.
Those covered by the
agreement include employes
who were domestic workers 1
and 2, custodial workers 1 and 2
and related classes.
It is expected that all will be
paid by Oct. 31.
5 number grades
in new contract
The new state central
agreement calls for five
number grades to be used on
employes’ annual performance
appraisals; the old contract had
four letter grades.
This issue of The OSEA News,
and no doubt some in the future,
contains stories of some
grievances which were begun
under the old contract and
completed under the new. In
cases where the grivance calls
for the improvement of a merit
evaluation grade, you will find
in some instances that the grade
has gone from a “C” to a “2”.
What do these mean?
Under the old contract, you
will recall, an employe who
received a grade of “A” or “B”
had performance “deemed
satisfactory” in that the em
ploye “meets or exceeds all
major requirements.” These
employes were entitled to a
merit increase. Those with a
“C” grade receive a pay in
crease “unless his / her needed
improvements are major in
nature when related to the
work plan and/or position
description.” Those with a “D”
grade received no merit in
crease.
Under the current contract,
the .same sort of thinking
prevails except that there are
five grades and they are
numbers (1, 2,3,4 and 5). Merit
increases will be given for
grades 1, 2 and 3. Those with
grade 4 will receive an increase
unless
the
needed
im
provements are major in
nature, while those with a grade
of 5 will receive no increase.
Of course, merit ratings still
may be grieved and they still
must be based on a position
description and a mutually
agreed to work plan.
Unsatisfactory grade
improved on appraisal
An
unsatisfactory
per
formance appraisal done on
Debra Brown, a food service
worker at Oregon State
Hospital, was improved with a
satisfactory grade because of a
'grievance filed on her behalf by
OSEA Employe Representative
Ken Allen.
The grade was changed
because Brown didn’t have a
work plan covering the period of
the performance appraisal.
at the start of any baby sitting job,
always ask the following information:
1. place, address and telephone number
where parents can be reached.
2. location of the nearest fire alarm box.
3. names and ages of the children you are
watching.
4. special instructions for the care of the
children.
6. our house address------------------ —-------
The undersigned parents or guardians of:
in case of emergencies:
1. telephone number
of fire department—______ _ _____ ;_____
2. telephone number
of police____________________________ .
3. name and number
of family doctor----------------------------------
4. name and number
of close neighbor____ :-------------------------
Boutique Sequel
Fashion
Resale Clothing
3794 Silverton Road NE
authorize needed emergency and urgent
health care to the aforesaid children:
signed:-------------------------------- —-------
Salem
and 614 Hurbert
Newport
courtesy of
cascade
health
care
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