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COMMISSION.
RECOMMEND LARGE INCREASE IN EXPENDITURE.
EXHAUSTIVE STUDY.
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1929.
After most careful consideration, however, it is thought that a 15 per cent. addition to the existing nominal standing anlaries may pro- perly be regarded as representing permanent increase in the cost of living in the Colony, The Commis sion recommends that the present system of allowing $12 to the £ plus a varying percentage for the conversion of sterling into dollars, be abandoned and that in its place the following be substituted:
labour market. No recommenda- tions are mado regarding labour on daily wages which, in the opinion of the Commission, must depend solely on the market rate.
The Commission, after careful consideration, of the option that the lowest wage paid to a labourer in Government employ should be $12 a month, though In most cases it recommends a commenclag wage of $10 a month. This, it is stated, compares favourably with wages paid by private employers. These labourers are already entitled to free quarters or an allowance in len thereof.
This subject is very fully dealt with in the report and it is con- sidered that the Government should, wherever possible, provido; free married quarters In the case of all married employees with over aix years' service.
Among the subjects taken up st
All sterling salaries of employees the meeting of the Legislative of the Government should be in- Counell yesterday was the report | creased by 15 per cent, and should | of the Salaries Commission be paid to them when on duty in appointed on October 19, 1928, to Hongkong on the last day of cach consider the adequacy of the month in dollars at the average salary scalea of offerrs employed | desund rate of exchange for by the Government of Hongkong, the past month provided such It is estimated that should the raio of exchange is 2/- or recommendations of the Commiss than 2/- but if the rate of alon be approved the cost to the exchange be more than 2/- the Government annually will be in salaries shall be paid in dollars at
The Commissiou recommend that! the neighbourhood of $1,300,000. exchange 2/ In addition, the good conduct allowances cease and The report is a very comprehen- Commission recommends that Gov- that they be replaced by increments sive document of 42 printed pages, ernment, at its discretion, continue of $12 per annum after three, six, The finding of the committee being to pay a High Cost of Living nine and 12 years respectively. IL Allowance but not exceeding 15 One fact, brought out very clearly set forth in 182 sections:
the nominal sterling | in the evidence taken, was the im- shows that the Commissioners, His per cent. of Honour Sir H. C. Gollan, Chair- Halsry of married officers and seven portatice which labourers on the man, the Hon. 'Sir Shou-son Chow and a half of the nominal sterling lowest grade of salary attached to and Mr. Paul Lander, hald 64 salary of unmarried officers. The the almost invariable practice of meetings during which the testi- Commission then proceeds to give Chinese private employers giving mony of 227 witnesses, represent- examples as affecting these officers.a bonus at Chinese New Year. Commissioners are satisfied The Commissioners point out that The ing every class, grade and group
other of the Government service
considerations obviously that if it is possible for Government caso of officers on to give effect to this practice, the taken. Heads of Departments apply in the were consulted and reports made dollar salaries. A large proportion concession would be greatly ap
con- of witnesses proved to them the preciated. The cost of this con- by them taken into careful
they had in balancing cession is estimated to be about sideration.
dimeulty
domestic budgets. After $40,000 a year. The Commissioners preface their their
It is considered that the salaries report with observations of a gen- careful consideration, the Com- eral character to explain the rea- mission came to the conclusion that of officers ordinarily recruited in be Kons which influenced them to come a 20 per cent, increase op dollar England should continue to to their conclusions. Explaining salaries would be fair. The Com- quoted in sterling and paid in thal salaries are at the present missioners consider that after six sterling while an officer is on leave time expressed in sterling and in years completed service is a tea in England or other country having dollars, they point out that salary sonable stage which an officer might a gold standard. This it is con- expressed in sterling must create expect that his pay should be nu-sidered is essential with a view to misunderstanding in, those not Belent to enable him to live in de-attracting recruits for the various aware of the manner in which it is cent comfort the ordinary domestic branches of the service and also for paid to an officer of the Govern-married life of his grade in society. the purpose of computing pensions, especially in cases where an officer men. While he is on leave and for the parise of calculating pensions
has served in other Colonies before Con retirement, the nominal aterling
transfer to Hongkong. farm is taken, but while at his post he receives his pay in dollars rulentated at the rate of exchange prevailing on the day of payment y during some fixed period previous to it.
Related to this question is the stage at which officers should be en- auled to marry on their pay. The difference
in the rate of salary By adopting the suggestion that paid to male and female employces sterling salaries should be convert- of Government has also been con-ed for local payment at a rate of sidered. The Commissioners have exchange not exceeding 2/- to the carefully considered the case pre- dollar, the uncertainty of an unduly sented to them on behalf of female fluctuating dollar is avoided and by employees of the Government and recommending that a high cost of have come to the conclusion that living alowance be granted, the there is a fundamental difference Commissioners consider that they. have not only obviated any reduc- between the positions of the two.
tion of the amounts drawn locally It was strongly urged that as women, particularly those serving but have also arranged a scheme in the Education Department, are which they trust will be easily un- doing the same work as male of derstood by the prospective can- ficers they should be practically on didate at Home. the
same senle of pay. They further argued that although they would not, in the ordinary course of events, have to support a family; many of them had parents and other relatives partially dependant on them. The Commissioners think however, that this latter argument is answered by the fact that this liability is shared by many male officers.
After the 1919 Salaries Com mission, all salaries were fixed at a 27 dollar for the conversion of sterling into dollars, but this proved untenable in 1920 owing to the rapid fall in the value of the dollar. A sliding sente therefore was introduced under which an of- ficer was paid at the rate of $10 to the £ when the dollar was at or over 4/4d, and at $12 to the when the dollar was 2/6d or under. Since the sliding scale was brought into operation, the cost of loral fiving has continued to in- crease and the burden of officers who have to remit money home for the support of their families and dependents, and for the education f their children, has become heavier. In July, 1928, the Govern- Another grievance dealt with was ment recognised these facts and the size of increment and the length male farther allowances to officers. of Lime that it takes an officer to The Taking the dollar at 2/- these reach the top of the scale,
that this allowances meant that married und Commissioners think usnurried officers, paid on a sterl-grievance is in many cases justi- ing basis, received an additional tied. It was represented to the B1 per cent. and 27.2 per cent. Commissioners that some compensa- Lion is due to Senior Omeers when repectively.
Allenton is drawn to the dif- they retire in respect of advantages ference
nominal which are being conferred on mem- between the sterling salary and the salary which bers of the public service génerally is actually drawn by an officer when in late years: such as free passages rent allowances, charge his post. It is pointed out that on leave, the basis which allows such a large allowances and exchange compensa- tion, The Commissioners are un- disparity requires modification.
The Commission states that it is able, however, to recommend that should be dificult to name a figure which this representation shall represent the increase in the given effect to.. cost of living during the last eight In the matter of the claim of em- years. Estimates given in evidence ployees receiving less than $20 a yard very greatly and it is noted righth it, has not been overlooked that this was the experience of the the important bearing that any in Ceylon Salaries Commissionera increase in the pay of persons of this must have on the generul
1921.
class
In the case of Acting. Pay, the Commissioners consider that the present provisions form a right and proper basis on which Acting Pay should be allowed, but that, If pon- sible, officers should not be appoint- ed to. perform the duties of two distinct offices at the same time.
In the case of Charge Allowances (or duty allowances, on pay), the! Commission have been unable to dis- cover any reason. for the grant of these allowances. They are at pre- sent confined to four departments, viz: the Marine Surveyor's office, the Prison Department,. the Public Works Department, the Kowloon Canton Railway, and are payable to officers in charge of sub-depart- monts and on that ground should be equally payable to a muster charge of a school, a doctor in charge of a hospital, ur'a custodian of a bathing beach.
in:
The Commissionera havé not scen their way to include Charge Allow- ances in the scales of salaries they have recommended because the in- crease would make the salary unduly large and have, therefore left them to be drawn, if Government permits, by those to whom they are at present, payable. But the Com- mission strongly they should
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