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Statement IV.
STATEMENT SHOWING BASIS OF COMPUTATION OF PENSIONS AND COMPASSIONATE ALLOWANCES.
Salaried Officials.
(a) Ten Years and Over.-Pensions Ordinance No. 30 of 1881 Article 12 (1), Appendix I Civil Service Regulations, page 112, as under :-
If any person retire or be removed from the Public Service in consequence of the abolition of his Office, or for the purpose of facilitating improvements in the organization of the Depart ment to which he belongs by which greater efficiency and economy can be effected, his pension may be at the rate of the number of sixtieths of his salary exceeding the number of the completed years of his actual service by the numbers following. that is to say :—
(a) in the case of an Officer who has served twenty years
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(b) in the case of an Officer who has served less than twenty years but not less than fifteen years
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(c) in the case of an Officer who has served less than fifteen years but not less than ten
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(b) Under Ten Years.-One-sixtieth of present salary for each year's service.
Daily Paid Employees.-One-sixtieth of wages for each year's service.
C. 84574/31 [No. 5].
No. 40.
The Governor of Mauritius to the Secretary of State for the Colonies. (Received 14th December, 1931.)
(Confidential.)
SIR.
[Answered by Nos. 60, 61, and 63.]
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
MAURITIUS. 17th November, 1931.
In my Confidential despatch of the 4th November* I endeavoured to comment on the general outlines of the proposals made by the Financial Commission for the re-establishment of budget equi- librium in Mauritius, but I was unable in the time available to dis- cuss the proposals in any detail. In the following despatch I shall * No. 39.
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attempt to add as briefly as possible notes on certain of the more important detailed proposals for the reorganization of the establish- ment which form the principal feature in the Commissioners' recommendations.
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2. Before proceeding to deal with specific proposals for depart- mental reorganization I may first, however, submit some observa- tions on the proposals affecting the Civil Service as a whole, viz., I regret pro- the suggested cut in salaries and pensions. foundly that it should have become necessary to have recourse to the expedient of reduction in the salaries of serving officers, who in many cases are not in my opinion by any means overpaid but in the view of the highly critical financial position and of the examples set elsewhere, I do not feel that I can resist the proposal. The principle on which the Commissioners have worked is reversion to the scale recommended by a Commission presided over in 1919 by in the Sir Alfred Herchenroder with the limitation that case of serving officers should in no case exceed ten per cent. of salary. In one or two cases where conditions have changed higher rates are proposed than the Herchenroder "scale, notably in the case of the Colonial Secretary, Procureur-General, and Director of Medical and Health Services, while in the case of the Colonial Post- master an actual increase in the present scale is proposed. There are good reasons for these special recommendations, but where they involve no reduction in present rates of pay they will inevitably cause a sense of grievance among other officers, and give an opening for criticism. The placing of the salary of the Procureur-General on a par with that of the Colonial Secretary is a departure from established traditions, and I doubt the advisability of this change. The present pay of the Colonial Postmaster is too low, especially in view of the additional responsibilities which it is proposed to im- pose upon him, but while admitting this I do not think the time opportune for the raising of any officer's salary and I do not recom- mend it. I consider that the increased rate should be laid down for adoption as soon as conditions permit, and that meanwhile the On the Colonial Postmaster should be exempted from the "cut." other hand, in view of the largely increased responsibilities which it is proposed to place upon the Collector of Customs by the amal- gamation of revenue and excise services with the Customs Depart- ment, it will, I think, be considered as an unfair discrimination that he should be subjected to reduction of pay while the Colonial Postmaster is recommended for an increase, and the Deputy As this officer will Collector of Customs is to suffer no decrease. under the scheme of reorganization be the Principal Adviser of the Government in all revenue matters and will presumably take the place of the Receiver-General in the Executive Council if the Com- missioners' scheme of reorganization is carried out, I do not think his present salary of Rs.15,000 is disproportionate in the scales proposed by the Commissioners.
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