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Minor Staff, Artisans and Foremen.
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There has, in the past, been a considerable diversity in the scales of pay for minor staff, artisans and foremen. Some of these scales differ only slightly from others. Some appear to have been created for individual holders of posts and there are wide diversitics in the rates paid to mon of presumably comparable degrees of skill in various departments. We are of the opinion, as stated in paragraphs 18 and 19 of Chapter II, that in future, as many of the lower grade staff as possible should be employed on daily rates of pay with a guaranto od 30-day month. We realise, however, that it may not be possible to put such a policy into effect immediately and that it may be found preferable to retain certain classes of workers falling within these categories on mo thly rates of pay. We have therefore put forward recommendations for scales of monthly pay for minor staff, artisans and foremen, which, in our opinion, vill result in the elimination of many unnecessary minor differences in grading and will produce a simpler and more logical vage structure for the lower grades of the service. We have based our recommendations on a slightly modified form of the grading used in Civil Affairs Circular No. 67 of 12th Decembor, 1945, in accordance with which wo have provided scales for minor staff, for semi-skillod workers, for two grades of artisans and for foremen and overscors. The minor staff grado will in the main consist of coolics, offico mossongors, sextons, notice servers, cleaners, seamen, caretakers, pointsmen, portors, gatomon, fomalo attendants, platolayers, trolleymen, rat catchors, rat searchers, latrine attendants, fomale escorts, female searchors, park keepers, bathhouse attendants, bargomen, meat porters and certain mahs, cooks, servants, gardeners, foresters and stoktors. Frovision has been made for certain officers within this class whose duties are more exacting or more responsible to enter the scalo half way up. The semi-skilled grade will include office attendants, stono polishers, guards and watchmon, the H.K.V.D.C. range Warden, tolophone boys, lift operators, tepomen, leading scamon, station attendants, road survey coolics, addressograph oporators, sound projector operators, laboratory attendants, packers, storo attendants, keymon, boy dressers, grooms, ambulance attendants, dispensary boys, motor mower drivers, pressmen, bathhouse engineers, stoorsmen, skilled labourers, tallymon, assistant junk coxswains, and cortain boatmon, paintors, stokors, cmohs, ward-boys, houso-boys, boys, cooks, gardeners and sextons. Artisans are divided into two grados. Grade II will consist of workmen not fully qualified for Grado I and those employed in trades where a lesser degroo of skill or a shorter period of apprenticeship is required then for Grade I. Grade II will include light attendants, hoad guards, head watchmon, signalmon, paintors, sailmakers, drain tosters, coxswain-firemon, carriage cleaners, tracers, assistant hocamen, mortuary attendants, assistant armouror attendants, loading gardeners, and certain forcmon in the Forestry and Gardons Departments, artisans and junk coxswains in the Sanitary Department and certain boatswains, launch engineers, coxswaing and houso-boys. Among Grade I artisans we have grouped motor drivers, lighthouse mechanics, carpenters, clcctricians, riggors, shunters, electric welders, moulders, hoadmon, fitters, dontal mechanics, disinfecting station ongincers, the armouror attendant, motor mechanics and curtain boatswains, launch coxswains and ongincers.
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