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as recommended in Report No 1. That is to say, the higher the rank, the less any attempt is made to reflect minor differences in job in pay scales. For most grades, pay scales from the maximum of the third rank upwards are identical for all grades within a group or sub-group. Thus, for example, the number of tanks broadbanded at the maximum will increase from 409 to 516.
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The system described applies fully only to grades remunerated from the Master Pay Scale. Educational qualifications have little significance for grades paid from Model Scale 1, and while they do have relevance to the disciplined services, in their case more weight is attached to the other special factors involved.
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In paragraph 4.9 reference is made to a minority of grades which have multiple entry points for different entry qualifications. While the Report recognises that in some cases this may be desirable, as for example in the disciplined services, it recommends that, except where indicated otherwise, higher educational qualifications than those required for appointment should not attract a higher entry point in the scale. The main grades affected by this recommendation are the matriculation grades dealt with in Chapter 12. At present, most of these grades provide for higher entry pay for graduates. It is not thought that the removal of this higher entry pay will have a serious effect on recruitment to these grades, which do not anyway need the bulk of their recruits to have anything higher than matriculation.
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Paragraphs 4. 13 and 4. 14 deal with career prospects. They reiterate the view expressed in Report No 1 that creation of promotion posts solely to provide civil servants with a career is unjustifiable. Reference is made to the fact that the Report recommends in various Chapters the merging of a number of grades without promotion prospects with grades with such prospects, which will itself improve the prospects of the occupants of the former grades. The Commission states its intention to pursue the question
of merging grades further, and so defers consideration of the provision of long service increments for the time being.
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The extent to which grades are recommended to be merged is considerable. An analysis of the detailed recommendations shows that altogether 65 ranks are to be merged with other departmental ranks or with general grades.
Model Scale 1
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Chapter 5 contains recommendations concerning the 40,000 staff paid from Model Scale 1. The main recommendation is for a revision
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