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Harbour Office staff for painting buoys and supervising
byphoon signals (Salaries Report, paragraph 173 (v) ) cannot in our opinion be justified and should not be continued to new employees.
Daily paid employees should, however, receive overtime pay on the usual scale (cf. (a) supra) whether
they receive a bonus or not.
(e)
We have now to suggest a scale of payment and
here lies the real difficulty of applying the Salaries
Report as it stands. For while we agree with the
Commissioners that overtime payment should be "roughly
calculated according to the salary limits of the
officers concerned" we are unable to see how that
principle is carried out by the scale in paragraph 171
of their Report, Deducting Sundays, holidays and Saturday afternoons the average your contains about
230 sevon-hour days or 1,960 hours, say 2,000 hours.
An hour's work of an officer on $7,000, is therefore
valued at $3.50 and for five hours and three hours
overtime respectively the just payments would be
$17.50 and $10.50. But the scale in paragraph 171
allows him $10 and $10 only, while paragraph 172
allows certain luckier colleagues to draw at the still
more favourable rate of $5 an hour. We cannot
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reconcile these findings and can only strike out on
a new line. We recommend that, with the exception
montioned in clause (f) below and subject to clauses
(a) ..