131 sections in this chapter.
ORS 240.430 Merit ratings. In cooperation with appointing authorities, the Personnel Division shall establish a system of merit ratings to determine the quality of performance and relative merit of employees in the classified service. [Amended by 1969 c.80 §71; 1979 c.468 §16]
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STATE MANAGEMENT CREDENTIALS PROGRAM
ORS 240.435 State Management Credentials Program required; purpose. The Oregon Department of Administrative Services shall establish a state management credentials program for state agency managers and employees on a career track to become agency managers. The state management credentials program shall include training opportunities for agency employees and training requirements for existing agency managers. The purpose of the state management credentials program is to insure that agency managers have the necessary training and skills to be effective leaders and team builders and to provide training in management skills as part of a professional development program for nonmanagement agency employees. To that end, the department shall
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(1) Identify necessary job skills for state managers, including team-building skills; (2) Identify skills and training needs for state managers to meet workplace requirements in the future; (3) Identify incentives for employees to participate in the program; and (4) Identify cont…
ORS 240.505 [Repealed by 1979 c.468 §1]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
ORS 240.510 [Amended by 1963 c.199 §3; 1969 c.80 §72; repealed by 1979 c.468 §1]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
ORS 240.515 [Amended by 1953 c.353 §2; 1961 c.450 §1; 1969 c.80 §73; 1973 c.471 §1; repealed by 1979 c.468 §1]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
ORS 240.520 [Amended by 1969 c.80 §74; repealed by 1979 c.468 §1]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
ORS 240.525 [Repealed by 1979 c.468 §1]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
ORS 240.530 [Repealed by 1979 c.468 §1]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
ORS 240.535 [Amended by 1969 c.80 §75; repealed by 1979 c.468 §1]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
ORS 240.540 [Amended by 1969 c.80 §76; repealed by 1979 c.468 §1]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
ORS 240.545 [Repealed by 1979 c.468 §1]
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WORKING HOURS; LEAVES; DISCIPLINE; REEMPLOYMENT
ORS 240.546 Payments in lieu of sick leave with pay; rules; exclusions. The Personnel Division may adopt rules, policies and procedures for state agencies to provide employees in the classified and unclassified service with payments on account of sickness in lieu of accrued and any future sick leave with pay. The Legislative Assembly, state courts and Department of Education may similarly adopt rules, policies and procedures providing unclassified employees with such payments. Payments on account of sickness may be made directly or from an insured plan, but the payments may not include medical treatment, hospitalization, dental or eye or other health care or duplicate any group insurance coverage otherwise provided in whole or in part by employer contributions. [1981 c.567 §9; 1995 c.612 §15; 2005 c.751 §3]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
ORS 240.550 [Repealed by 1979 c.468 §1]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
ORS 240.551 Working hours, holidays, leaves of absence and vacations of employees in state classified service. The Personnel Division shall establish the hours of work, holidays, leaves of absence with and without pay and vacations of employees in the state classified service. The division may delegate this responsibility to individual operating agencies where appropriate. [1979 c.468 §21]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
ORS 240.555 Suspension, reduction, demotion or dismissal. The appointing authority in any division of the service may suspend, reduce, demote or dismiss an employee thereof for misconduct, inefficiency, incompetence, insubordination, indolence, malfeasance or other unfitness to render effective service. [Amended by 1969 c.80 §77; 1975 c.427 §11; 1979 c.468 §17]
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ORS 240.560 Appeal procedure. (1) A regular employee who is reduced, dismissed, suspended or demoted, shall have the right to appeal to the Employment Relations Board not later than 30 days after the effective date of the reduction, dismissal, suspension or demotion. The appeal must be in writing. The appeal is timely if it is received by the board or postmarked, if mailed postpaid and properly addressed, not later than 30 days after the effective date of the reduction, dismissal, suspension or demotion. The board shall hear the appeal within 30 days after the board receives the appeal, unless the parties to the hearing agree to a postponement. The board shall furnish the division of the service concerned with a copy of the appeal in advance of the hearing
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(2) The hearing shall be conducted as provided for a contested case in ORS chapter 183. (3) If the board finds that the action complained of was taken by the appointing authority for any political, religious or racial reasons, or because of sex, marital status or age, the employe…
ORS 240.563 Judicial review. Judicial review of orders under ORS 240.560 shall be as provided in ORS chapter 183. [1971 c.734 §31]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
ORS 240.565 [Amended by 1969 c.80 §79; repealed by 1979 c.468 §1]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
ORS 240.570 Classified employee filling position in unclassified, exempt or management service. (1) Positions in the unclassified, management and exempt services may be filled by classified employees. After an employee is terminated from the unclassified or exempt service or removed from the management service, for reasons other than those specified in ORS 240.555, the state agency that employed the employee before the appointment to the unclassified, exempt or management service may, at the agency’s sole discretion, restore the employee to a position held in the agency before the appointment if the employee meets the position requirements. If an employee is restored to a former position, the employee is subject to any applicable agency collective bargaining agreement
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(2) An appointing authority may assign, reassign and transfer management service employees for the good of the service and may remove employees from the management service due to reorganization or lack of work. (3) A management service employee is subject to a trial service perio…
ORS 240.572 [1977 c.271 §3; repealed by 1979 c.468 §1]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
ORS 240.575 [1971 c.542 §2; repealed by 1979 c.468 §1]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
ORS 240.580 Service credits for service in unclassified service. An employee who is initially appointed to a position in the unclassified service as a member of the Oregon State Police under ORS 181A.050, who separates voluntarily from that service and who, within two years after the separation, is appointed to a position in the classified service, whether within a bargaining unit covered by a collective bargaining agreement or not, and acquires regular employee status shall be entitled, for purposes of layoff and opportunity for reemployment after separation for reasons other than cause, to service credit for the service in the unclassified service preceding the service in the classified service. ORS 240.321 (3) does not apply to service credit granted under this section. [1983 c.746 §2; 2011 c.547 §41]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
ORS 240.590 Reemployment of employee in exempt service. An employee in the exempt service who has been employed full-time for at least 12 months consecutively in such service may be noncompetitively reemployed in a position for which qualified within two years from the date of separation, if separated from state service in good standing. However, such reemployment shall occur only after current bargaining unit members have exhausted any rights under an applicable collective bargaining agreement. [1985 c.635 §5]
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BOARD FEES
ORS 240.610 Mediation service fee; labor relations and negotiation training fee; amount; payment; disposition of fees. (1) Notwithstanding ORS 662.435, when the Employment Relations Board assigns a mediator under ORS 243.712 or 662.425 to resolve a labor dispute or labor controversy between a local public employer and the exclusive representative of the public employees of that employer, the board may charge a fee for the mediation services provided by the board. The local public employer and the exclusive representative shall each pay one-half of the amount of the fee to the board
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(2) Notwithstanding any other law, the fee charged by the board under this section may not exceed: (a) $1,000 for the first two mediation sessions; (b) $625 for the third mediation session; (c) $625 for the fourth mediation session; and (d) $1,000 for each additional mediation se…
ORS 240.705 [Repealed by 1967 c.630 §5]
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PROHIBITED CONDUCT
ORS 240.710 Certain acts unlawful. (1) No person shall make any false statement, certificate, mark, rating or report with regard to any test, certification, or appointment made under this chapter, or in any manner commit or attempt to commit any fraud preventing the impartial execution of this chapter and the rules
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(2) No person shall, directly or indirectly, give, render, pay, offer, solicit or accept any money, service or other valuable consideration for or on account of any appointment, proposed appointment, promotion or proposed promotion to, or any advantage in, a position in the class…
ORS 240.740 [1983 c.808 §2; repealed by 1989 c.890 §12]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
ORS 240.750 When discipline action not to be retained in personnel file. No copy of a personnel discipline action that has been communicated orally or in writing to the employee and subsequently reduced in severity or eliminated through collective bargaining, grievance or personnel process shall be placed or otherwise retained in the personnel file of the employee unless agreed to by the employer and the employee. [1985 c.813 §2]
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Note: 240.750 was enacted into law by the Legislative Assembly but was not added to or made a part of ORS chapter 240 or any series therein by legislative action. See Preface to Oregon Revised Statutes for further explanation. MISCELLANEOUS
ORS 240.850 Policy on work environments; duties of state agencies. It is the policy of the State of Oregon to encourage cooperative, participatory work environments and team-based management practices in all state agencies. To that end, when feasible and appropriate, state agencies shall
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(1) Delegate responsibility for decision-making and service delivery to the lowest possible level; (2) Involve all workers, especially frontline workers, in the development and design of processes and program improvements; (3) Simplify and eliminate internal administrative rules …
ORS 240.855 Telecommuting; state policy; agencies to adopt written policies; identification of barriers and solutions. (1) As used in this section
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(a) “State agency” means any state office, department, division, bureau, board and commission, whether in the executive, legislative or judicial branch. (b) “Telecommute” means to work from the employee’s home or from an office near the employee’s home, rather than from the princ…
ORS 240.990 Penalties. (1) Subject to ORS 153.022, any person who willfully violates any provision of this chapter or of the rules thereunder commits a Class A misdemeanor
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(2) Any person who fails to appear in response to a subpoena or to answer any question or produce any books or papers pertinent to any investigation or hearing authorized by this chapter commits a Class A misdemeanor. (3) A state officer or employee who fails to comply with any p…