Jobs Classifieds Jobs Classifieds TH€ €MPlOY€flS CORNCR - FUTURE OF TH€ €MPIOVM€NT S€RVIC€_ Twenty Job Service Employer Committees (JSECs) advise and c r it iq u e the performance of the lo cal employment o ffic e serving th e ir area. In cooperation with your lo ca l JSEC, each issue of the Oregon Labor Trends features an a r t ic le of special in te re s t to employers. This issue and next month's issue w ill deal with important facts and rumors concerning the future of the Employment D iv isio n - s p e c if ic a lly , the Employment Service. At th is w ritin g , there are rumors that the current Federal a<*ninistration is working toward devolvement of the United States Employment Service (USES). As employers, you need to decide i f there is a ro le for a national program of some kind. If so, what is that ro le ? We are at a crossroad on the future of the Employment Service. We need your input now more than ever. We are taxing steps to insure fu ll discu ssion . The f i r s t Region X JSEC meeting, hosted by Oregon, w ill be held October 17-19, 1984 at the Jantzen Beach Red Lion Inn, Portland. J S E C s from Alaska, Idaho, Washington and Oregon w ill attend. JSEC's w ill id e n tify and recomnend a lte rn a tiv e s fo r fund ing the Employment Service. Anyone Interested in attending p o rtio n s, or a l l , of th is Regional Meet ing can contact your local Employment O ffic e Manager for further d e ta ils . THE FACTS ARE: The Employment Service funding fo r F is ca l Year T985 proposed by the current Adm inistration and accepted by the Senate contains zero d o lla r Increase in spending. This w ill re s u lt in a loss of s t a f f once I n fla tio n is considered. The House proposed a 3 percent increase. This w ill not cover the predicted 5 percent in fla tio n a ry Increase. THE RUMORS ARE: The Adm inistration w ill con tinue wTfh TtV program to phase out the United States Employment Service. This means the states w ill pick up the operation i f they want to. John Cogan, an o f f i c i a l with the O ffic e of Management and Budget, hopes to present a zero budget fo r the Employment Service in F is ca l Year 1986. Fu rther, once the Employment Service is elim in a ted , the UI system w ill be the next to “devolve" to the sta te s. None of th is mentions employers tax d o lla r s . One guess is that the employers' taxes that finance the system (FUTA) w ill be kept in Washington to help balance the federal d e f ic it . THE REASON: The Federal d e f ic it is c ite d as the reason to get out of the Employment Security business. Two years ago, we were concerned with the level of USES base s t a f f nationwide. Budget Cuts reduced the USES s t a f f from 30,000 to the current nation wide level of 22,800. While we agreed with the i n i t i a l cu ts , a d d itio n al cuts are “ into the bone". During the month of Ju ly 1984, we had 266 ES s t a f f . These 266 people took 14,569 job orders and placed 12,368 job a p p lica n ts. The next Employer's Corner w ill continue t a lk ing about "The Future of the Employment S ervice". REMEMBER: employers pay fo r th is se rv ice . Become involved by p a rtic ip a tin g in the lo cal and state level JSEC meetings. Contact your lo ca l employment o ffic e manager for further d e t a ils . □ N€UJ PUBLICATION - OCCUPATIONAL UUAGC RCPORI_________ The ¿983 Oregon Wage Information P u b lica tio n is now a v a ila b le .' The occupatT'onaT^wage daEF are'com- p ile d from various wage studies done in Oregon. Over 330 coirmon occupations are lis t e d including ,982 employment, the sources of data fo r that occu pation, and various wage parameters (low, high, q u a r t ile s , and an average). The number of para meters shown varies by occupation according to the representativeness of the data sources. Tour copy of th is report may be ordered from: Employment D iv isio n - RiS 875 Union NE Salem OR 97311 503/373-1816 P»U® 12 Job«, Section Two Portland Observer, Septembmf 12, 1984 . A H “ "’ **' • •/, ' ' • '-a’ r.i'.'»- • ■ r ' '• ? • •' u • • ’ / •• -• •• •'>r - « r X - Z i - i f l d l t f M M •• / . • , w te w x w <