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THE CHINÄ MÄIL, SATU RDAY, "JANUKRY""3, 1948.
THE SALARIES COMMISSION
maizi **
Retrenchment
(Continued from Page 7) wo have attempted by suggesting skiered with a view to provid-as the Governor-in-Council shall i to think it shall be deemed to bel model scales for the main cate-ing the necessary sanctions that the time has come for Govgories of Government servants to secure efficiency and to enable within the definition of an over-
without undue res-neas country, ernment to lay down explicitly reduce the present extraordinary Governmont the qualifications that shall be re diversity of salary scales which riction or burden upon its in- quired in future for appointment are no doubt the result of piece-ances to dispense with officers locally to its technical and pro-meal decisions taken over many who are inefficient or guilty of
that Governme fessional services,
years. Wo have accordingly misconduct: ment departments should under divided the Government service take the responsibility for pre-into the following viding professional and other ap-groups- prenticeships which must supple ment and make effective the work that educational Institutione can do. We would venture to ask for
this the early consideration of Issue by Government, as we are convinced that it is on this that the cuccess or failure of the new Colonial polley will depend.
Salary Scales
A necessary corollary of all this Is that having proposed what we regard as adequate salary scalea for properly trained and qualified mrn, we cannot recommend the in- lireriminate application of these neales to all existing holders of posts. Intelligent application of knowledge gained through long
(a) Minor Star, Artisanie asd.
Foremen,
(b) Storekeepers, (c) Clerical, (d) Executive or
trative,
tralive.
(e) Technical, (f) Professional and adminis
Wo have
nvo endeavoured to provide within each group for a reason- able career, but have nisa had in mind the possibility of an officer advancing from one group to an other. In addition to the six groups mentioned above, there are two further groups which provide possible avenues of promotion:--
(4) Specialist.
Details
(i) "Expatriate Officer" means a person who, owing to the lack in the Colony of a candidate pos
the assing requisite qualifications, has been appointed from an over- sons country to the servico of thei Hong Kong Government, and who We have proposed what we con- on the first occasion of his en- aforesaid, Was sider to be the lowest adequaio ngoment terms at which the Government habitually resident in or had his may expect to get competent res.solo or principal place of residenco armi.adminis-Tonsible officers. But the total in and was not resident for tom- cost will be high. It has bean porary purposes only in an over- no part of our lask to inquire if soas country. departments are overstaffed or if holders of hosts are really com pulent or if departments are wel
Wo have arsumed We recommend organised.
that expatria that in these respects conditions tion pay should be granted to ox- patriate officers in addition to are satisfactory. But the taxpay er has a 'right to clearer aṣur- basic pay. We have not recomI- wo can offer. It is monded a fixed percentage of basic ances than therefore ow recommendation salary as expatriation pay since the Government should this would result in irregular that
but in certain instances, have suggested for accounting convenience a series of platforms. We recommend that expatriation bo pensionable and pay should that it should be payable both white an officer is resident in the Colony and while he
on leave. recommend We do not, however, that expatriation pay should be taken into account when percent. age deductions are made for the rent of Government quarters, vince
if such deductions were made from expatriation pay, an over-
oficer sens
basic on the saIO entary a local officer and
and of the same seniority would, if both officers were allotted Government quarters, have to pay more than
experience frequently has proved (h) Superscale. of greater valge than specifle! Our recommendations training, though we would hesitate in the main
are based
on this system of]
to assert that this is universally grouping, but to allow for varia- true. It will therefore be for the tions to duties, responsibilities and Government to decide what pro-qualifications within each group
varving suggested
entry) portion of the new rates of pay have
to the to officers points on
model scales, should he permitted technically unqualified and what varying maximum salaries, vary
such paints for promation bars pri weight should be given in cases to the value of experience. efficiency bars. and occasionally On this matter the Commission an increased incremental rate of ly not competent to make specific certain points. Using the met 1roposals, but we cannot bet henrades with modifications of this aware that the rates we propose kind we have effected n consider. are bound to be found too high ablo reduction in the number of in specific cases, just as we are salary scales which exist al pre aware that it is dangerous to pay. {sent.
a t present, at coolie rates of pas, men who are in charge of the investigation of applications
Remuneration Of Women
fur free food issuas We can unl We have given careful Cu suggest tentatively thnt apartsideration to the remuneration of
from exceptional Casen 51 1121
ofileer qualified
should be allow ed to progress more than two thirds of the way along the in
cremental senies proposed for qualified officers and that where local training facilities exist and
qualified sicers
the are in early stages 01 their officit careers, an efficiency bar shoutu
women who do work comparable
RE-RUILDING BRITAIN
London, Jan. 2. Up to the end of Novem- ber. 315,000 hew houses were completed in Britain since the war,
The November figure of 18,300 permanent and tem- porary hames completed was a drop of 2,000 from the October figure.—Reuter.
satisfy itself and people general ly by inquiry through a commit tee or using the services of a specini officer that the public s vices are not overstaffed nor the saylum of inefficient offleura,
with that dons by male officers, to particular we have consideral |
Expatriation Pay the case of wanten doctors, school. W.. mistresses and women clerks, have studied, the report
Before attempting the diflcult of the Royal Commission on Equal Pay task of suggesting a definition of we feel it. 1944-1948 and we opinion that the remuneration of necessary to make a few general A woman officer should
of the an expatriate officer аге
observations:— br
he inserted in the sente bevono proximately 80 per cent. of that which they cannot pass until they of n male officer doing campur. obtain the requisite qualifications. Jabla" work.
Local Employment
In the new baste salaries we
are proposing, we have contem
are
Efficiency Bars
(1) In our view, to officer, of race, who whatever nationality or
recruited. locally
should nor maily be entitled to expatriation
WTCHE 123. enn, however, Imagino a case in w
in which a
a perin DOSSOLBER apecial qualification not otherwire Available [1 the Colony, and
AUING
420
the local officer. Similarly we
suggest that expatriation pay should not be included in total emoluments in any salary assess- ment for cost of living allow ances.
The following rates of expatria- tlon pay are recommended for ox- patriate officers:
Salary per annum
not exceeding
Salaries
Peninsular
& Oriental
SEPARABIT
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plated the employment of genuine) The new reales we are propos Hong Kong candidates whose ing will in many cases bring sub- roots
are
In the Colony and we stantial increases in basic salary but for the fact that the happens to be available in Hong Kong by recommend that if such candito serving officers and in the ap
reason of somo work in which he dates
available
the plication of these scales, we re with
or for some recessary qualifications
they commend the strict enforcement has been engaged should be given preference over of efficiency bars and promotion other reason, would have been
to $12,800 other candidates who come into bars where these are indicated. qualified as an expatriate officer.
Salaries from $12,801 up The Colony from outside.
The new salary scales together in such an exceptional case we
to $19,200 iving consider that Government should Element For Rent with a temporary cost of living
Salarlos from $19,201 up allowance should provide nde- be at liberty to engage such a The salary sentes we proposequately for a reasonable standard person on terms which would in- : include an element for rent, and where quarters are provided by of living throughout the public volve expatriation pay if his ser- Salaries
service ut in the interests of the vices cannot otherwise be secur Government wo recommend an taxpayer we urge that
ed: every en. appropriate deduction from salary deavour should he made by Heads
(i) Wo consider that, in order We are of the opinion that the
apparent discrimination in present diversity of conditions of of Departments to satisfy them to avoid a sense of resentment at servies under which some ameers aclves that officers in their de-any
some are partments have by their work and the Government service, it is of receive free quarters,
conduct fully merited incremental vital importance that charged 6 per cent. of salary, Home 12 per cent, and others certificates or recommendations to ciple of expatriation pay should
Where
bo applied strictly and fairly to the whole service. ceive a contribution towards their pass efficiency bars.
that standard sible we suggest rent in the form of a rent al tests of efficiency in the form of lowance, is undesirable and should written examinations, intelligence be abandoned. The element we tests and interviews should be have incorporated into basic introduced te
Coming now to the question of to determine whether definition, we suggest that this salaries in respect of rent should an officer should er should not should be done in the form of be suffelent in the majority of
nt pass an efficiency bar or CALON to
present privilege enjoyed by certain for consideration for promotion series of rules or regulations Colonial Office stated tonight The Colonial Secretary, Me.
pos.
Definition
the prin-
Anglo-Dutch Agreement.
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London, Jan. 2. The
British and Dutch Governments have reached provisional agreement on trade between and financial relations Malaya and The Netherlands East Indies, a spokesman of the
Where the services of an officer on the follow" means Arthur Creech Jones, has naked |
"Ovorseas
cers of adding one sixth of their are dispensed with for ineficiency a country other than Hong Kong the Governments of the Malayan salary to their pensionable omolu-ar misconduct it is important that China, Macao, Japan, ments.
India, It should in addition form 2 reasonable contribution any grant made to or by Way Burn, Ceylon, the Philippines, Union and Singapore for their
the Netherlands East Indies, observations, he added. towards the rent of premises at of pension gratuity or other
lawance should either be with- Stam, Mainya, French Indo-China, If they are favourable, the controlled rates.
held or be of such a limited ex Diversity of Scales gratin amount as not to make it his own diss
Paragraph (ii) of our terms worth while for an officer to con. or Sarawak, or any ad;} agreement will take effect at
of reference instructs us to keep duce or secure
raged
time AA territories in South East the tame
main the from
which a person is en- agreement between the British for service with the Hong and Netherlands Government, in view the desirability of reduc missal by deliberate inefficiency Government, provided that
negotiations for which the present diversity of salary or misconduct with a view to ob for special reasons and in respect ing
started before sealer and conditions of service taining a pension or a gratuity amongst the various grades of the to supplement his earnings from of any special case the Governor.
in-Council may direct that India will be continued public service. We have already other employment. It is recom recommended uniformity in con-mended that the provisions relat and auch part or parts of China future-Reuter. nexion with rent for quarters and ing to pensions should be recon-
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