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APPENDIX VII.
INDEX OF MAIN DECISIONS AND RECOMENDATIONS.
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Decision to ignore questions of departmental reorganisation, proposals for the creation of new posts and personal grievances. (paragraph 4).
Decision to ignore obsolescent scales. (paragraph 4).
(ii) Decision to make no recommendations regarding the salaries of certain posts created since the reoccupation. (paragraph 4). Recommendation that in future all salaries and emoluments should be expressed in Hong Kong currency. (paragraph 16).
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Recommendation that the future salary structure should be built up on the basis of rates of pay applicable to locally recruited staff: (paragraph 17).
Decision to restrict recommendations to emoluments of monthly paid staff. (paragraph 18).
Recommendation that in future as many as possible of the lower grade staff should be employed on daily rates of pay but with a guaranteed 30 day month. (paragraph 19).
Recommendation for an increase of 200% on lower grade salaries, falling to 30% cn salaries of about $1000 per month and 20% on salaries of about $1500 per month. (paragraph 21).
Recommendation that officers who do not benefit immediately from the revised salaries should be allowed to choose within a certain period whether to remain on their existing conditions of service or to come on to the new scales.
on to the new scales. (paragraph 22). (x) Recommendation that where suitably qualified candidates cannot be obtained at the revised rates proposed owing to temporary
scarcity temporary appointments on short term contracts at higher rates should be offered. (paragraph 23).
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Recommendation that Government should consider and lay down general principles to govern the relation of Deputies and Assistant Heads of Departments to the Heads of technical departments and to senior professional officers in technical departments. (paragraph 25).
Decision to ignore temporarily exaggerated rates of income obtaina by professional men locally. (paragraph 26). Recommendation that appointments from overseas should in future be in some sense specialist appointments.
sense specialist appointments. (paragraph 28). Recommendation that Government should lay down specific qualifications required for appointment locally to the technical and professional departments and should provide facilities for professional apprenticeship. (paragraph 28).
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