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We have not seen our way to include Charge Allowances in the scales of salaries we have recommended because the increase would make the salaries unduly large; and have therefore left them to be drawn, if Government permits, by those to whom they are at present payable. But we strongly recommend that they should cease on promo- tion, transfer, or retirement, and that they should not be drawn by persons who are acting for officers now entitled to Charge Allowances.
(c) Overtime Allowances.
165. General Order No. 103 (1) makes the following provision regarding Over- seers in the Public Works Department (including Inspectors and Senior Inspectors of Works).
103 (1) "Sunday and Holiday overtime allowances are payable to Overseers in the Public Works Department in cases of emergency at the rate of $8 a day, provided that the work is authorised to be done on these days by the Executive Engineer in Charge. No payment will he made in respect of occasional visits to works on such days nor in any case in which less than half a day's work is in- volved".
166. Government has also approved the payment of Sunday and Holiday Work Allowances in the following cases :--
(i) Post Office -For 4 hours work on Sundays and Holidays, with half rates if under 4 hours, to the following officers :-
Superintendent of Mails
Assistant Superintendents of Mails Postal Clerks Classes I-IV
$15
Postal Clerks Class V
Postal Clerks Class VI
Probationer Sorters
Inspector of Postmen
Launch Officers
Head Postman
Postmen
Coolies
Mail Bag Coolies
Launch Crew (G.P.O. I and II)
1
3
25 cents
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(ii) Harbour Office: At the same rates as in (i) to clerks who are required to attend on Sundays and Holidays with this difference, however, that the full allowance is paid for 2 hours duty and half rate if less than 2 hours.
(iii) Imports & Exports Department:Also at the sanje rates as in (i) for clerks in attendance on Holidays but in this case, we understand, the duty performed extends for 3 hours, from 9 a.m. to 12 noon.
(iv) Medical Department :-Clerks required to attend on Saturday afternoons, Sundays and Holidays are given allowances of $5 to $10 a month, the rate being based as in the Post Office on their class in the Junior Clerical Service. Dispensers are also granted $2 for each day's work on Sundays or holidays.
(v) Public Works Department:-Allowances at rates roughly equivalent to one day's pay, and in practice the same allowances as in the Post Office, are paid to Tele- graphists, Wireless Operators, and Messengers delivering Wireless messages who are re- quired to perform duty on Sundays and Holidays, and to the Dredger Master and Crew when called out for duty on these days.
(vi) Kowloon Canton Railway :--- -Allowances at the same rates as in the Post Office are given to 2 clerks and 2 shroffs who attend on alternate Sundays and Holidays. The clerks check the returns of tickets by each train which must be done daily and the shroffs meet the train bringing in cash from outstations at 9 a.m. in the morning and again in the evening.