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THESDAY, MARCH 7, 1989
THE
RELEASING THE FINAL REPORT AT A PRESS CONFERENCE, THE CHAIRMAN, MR
CONCLUSIONS REPORT CONTAINED GORDON BURRETT, SAID THAT THE
LEVEL SURVEY, FUTURE OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE ISSUES OF THE 1986 PAY PAY DETERMINATION AND THE METHODOLOGY FOR PAY TREND SURVEYS.
THE COMMITTEE HAD
"IN RELATION TO THE 1986 PAY LEVEL SURVEY, REACHED THE VIEW THAT THE METHODOLOGY USED BY THE CONSULTANTS FOR
BUT REPUTABLE PAY COMPARISONS IS SOUND AND
AS REGARDS
HAVE BEEN PREFERABLE.
USED TENDED
ΤΟ OVERVALUE
THE
JOB-FOR-JOB COMPARISONS
FRINGE BENEFITS
SERVICE CIVIL
PRIVATE SECTOR AND
THE BENEFITS GROUNDS FOR THOUGH THE THE CIVIL
WOULD METHODOLOGY ESPECIALLY HOUSING. THERE ARE NEVERTHELESS NO CONVINCING DISPUTING THE GENERAL TENOR OF THE 1986 SURVEY'S DEGREES OF DISCREPANCY SERVICE MUST BE IN DOUBT," HE SAID.
THE BETWEEN
CONSULTANTS
SURVEY,
WERE THE COMMITTEE NOTED THAT WHEN HAY MANAGEMENT
TO CONDUCT
1986 PAY COMMISSIONED
THE
LEVEL
THEY WERE
SPECIFICALLY ASKED TO PROVIDE THE
WITH COMMISSION STANDING
THE CURRENT INFORMATION WHICH WOULD ENABLE THEM TO DETERMINE WHETHER
LINE WITH THAT OF REMUNERATION OF THE CIVIL SERVICE WAS BROADLY IN EMPLOYEES IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR UNDERTAKING COMPARABLE WORK.
AT
THE MAIN EXPRESSLY
THE
HAY PLACED "HOWEVER, SINCE THE METHODOLOGY USED BY
THEY COMPARISONS AND
WERE EMPHASIS ON POINTS/FACTOR
LOOKING PRECLUDED
TO FROM
JOBS,
THIS EXTENT INDIVIDUAL
PERFORCE OF FULLY RESULTING REPORT MAY BE SAID TO HAVE FALLEN SHORT
MR BURRETT SAID. ACHIEVING THE COMPARABLE WORK' OBJECTIVE,
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LEVELS DOES NOT AND
MORALE, BUDGETARY
SURVEY
OF POLICY. TAKEN INTO DIRECTLY FROM A
CONSIDERATIONS,
PAY
WE
VIEW A "HAY HAVE MADE IT CLEAR THAT IN THEIR
SHOULD
REMUNERATION NOT DETERMINE OTHER FACTORS NEED TO BE SHARE THIS VIEW AND BELIEVE ACCOUNT IN DETERMINING PAY APART FROM THOSE ARISING PARTICULAR PAY LEVEL SURVEY, E.G.
AND RETENTION PROBLEMS, SECURITY OF JOB SATISFACTION, RECRUITMENT TENURE, PROMOTION PROSPECTS AND INTERNAL RELATIVITIES. WE THINK THE HAY RESERVATIONS CAST SERIOUS DOUBT ON THE VALIDITY OF THE RESULTS AS AN EXACT INDICATOR OF WHAT CIVIL SERVICE PAY LEVELS HAVE BEEN IN 1986.
THAT
SURVEY
SHOULD
SINCE
SCENE
LEVEL
SUGGESTS THAT "THE EVIDENCE GIVEN TO THE COMMITTEE ALSO
AND REMUNERATION THE 1986 SURVEY WAS CONDUCTED THE EMPLOYMENT
THAT IF A PAY HAD ALTERED RADICALLY. MOREOVER, WE CONSIDER
WHICH CIVIL SURVEY IS TO BEAR THE WEIGHT OF DETERMINING THE RATES AT
STAFF AND SERVANTS ARE TO BE PAID IT MUST HAVE THE CONFIDENCE OF THE THIS CANNOT BE ACHIEVED WITHOUT ADEQUATE CONSULTATION.
Ог THE TIME FACTOR, CONCLUSION CONFIDENCE. OUR
DO NOT PROVIDE SURVEY'S FINDINGS
A PAY
"WE THINK THAT IN 1986 POSSIBLY BECAUSE NOT ENOUGH HAD BEEN DONE TO WIN THAT THEREFORE IS THAT THE 1986 SUFFICIENT BASIS FOR MAKING SPECIFIC ADJUSTMENTS TO CIVIL SERVICE EITHER NOW OR IN THE FUTURE,"
/FOR FUTURE