(a) Commissioner:
The grade proposed is the same
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as
as the
for "Cadet Officer I" a senior administrative grade (App. V p. ccii) and his max. salary the same fixed salary of the D.P.W. and D.M.S. i.a. Seems not unreasonable.
(b) Cadet Officer Grade II: robably the Deputy and/or Asst. Commissioners. No comments.
(male)
66) Labour Officers: there may be some good reason why these officers (probably at present mainly ex- patriate, but also possibly promoted local officers) have a grade which takes them 20 years to reach a max. lower than that reached by Cadet Officers in 19 if they have forked up from a lower grate the prospect of their ever reaching this max. is not great (32 years) It is fairly clear that they will struggle to leve this department for some other as they probably do not have much prospect of being romoted within their own dert. (a) are offered a career of 15 years to reach the lowest max. shown for vomen of their group in any dent.! The male officers on the contrary have a higher max. than many similar men in other depts(which also employ · romen in these ranks). In other departments w men may
xxx continue for 22 years to progress.
omen Labour Officers:
are even worse off, fr they
(e) Asst. Labour Officers (male): These are intended to be Chinese, with a University degree together with a diploma in Social Science. It is not xxika clear
why
their minimum should be lower than that of officers in other departments. It may be that the intention is to make them the same as Labour Inspe tors Grade I (who also require a dipl.in Soc. Sci. but not a University degree). The starting salary is lower than that for the tp gr des of clerks and stenogr hers and t he same as Executive Officers Grade II, who advance by larger increments.
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(f) Asst. Labour Officers (women): none at present, but mentioned by the Commission (report. 51, para. 145). The suggested grade has a low max. but re- sumably, as with the men, there is a good chance of advancing to the grade of "Labour Officer".