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CHAPTER 6
MODEL SCALE 1
Introduction
6.1
Our first review of Model Scale 1 in Report No. 2 was largely confined to adjusting the value of the pay points of the scale. We recommend overall improvements to the pay of Model Scale 1 employees. However, in paragraph 5.13 of that Report we listed a number of other issues concerning Model Scale 1 employees which we considered required further attention, and undertook to examine these in our current work programme. These issues are :
(a) The relationship between Model Scale 1 and the
(b)
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(d)
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Master Pay Scale; in particular the degree to which differences in the terms applicable to staff on the two scales should be reduced.
Criteria for ranking; the system for determining the level of pay for individual ranks on Model Scale 1.
Possible abolition of sub-segments; the system whereby many Model Scale 1 employees receive only part of the normal segment scale.
Transfer to the Master Pay Scale; the possible transfer of individual Model Scale 1 ranks to the Master Pay Scale.
Amalgamation of ranks; a possible reduction in the number of Model Scale 1 ranks.
Supervisory ranks; the question of whether the number of supervisory ranks on Model Scale 1 could be reduced.
The review of these issues has also involved an examination of each individual Model Scale 1 grade.
6.2
We had already received some representations on the above issues in the course of conducting our first review. On 18th December 1979 we issued a circular letter (which we asked should be brought to the attention of all Model Scale 1 staff) seeking further views from both staff and management. In response to the letter we received 41 submissions. Staff of the Commission also met a number of groups of Model Scale 1 employees and visited some of them at their place of work. A list of staff groups and associations from whom written representations were received is in Appendix IX, and those who were met by staff of the Commission are listed in Appendix IV.