(a) Class.
Writing Assistant.
Clerical.
Executive and Administrative.
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(b) Functions.
For simple mechanical work. For the better sort of work included in the first main category defined above.
For the work included in the second main category defined above.
Administrative Posts.
(c) Salary.
18s. to 388. a week. Junior Grade. Men: £60-£350. Women: £60-£250.
Senior Grade. Men: £300-£400. Women: £230-£300. Training Grade. Men: £100-£400. Women: £100-£300.
Higher Grade. Men: £400-£500. Women: £300-£400.
Cadet Corps.
Men: £200-£500. Women: £200-£400.
5. The Joint Committee agreed that provision should be made for the recruit- ment of a portion of the Executive and Administrative Class by promotion of officers of lower grades in the earlier stages of their service, and as regards the Adminis- trative Class, the Committee consider that well qualified officers of other classes, who have not been so chosen for promotion to the Cadet Corps, should be eligible for employment on work of the same kind as that performed by the Cadet Corps; such selected officers to be placed on the following scales of salary:-
Men: £400-£500.
Women: £300-£400.
(The above scales of salary are assessed on a pre-War basis, i.e., exclusive of war bonus; and the salaries of the Higher Clerical Class, Executive and Adminis- trative Classes are inclusive of overtime.)
Application of Report to the Colonial Office. Writing Assistants.
6. We have considered the application of the Report of the Joint Committee to the Colonial Office. We are of the opinion that the routine work of the Colonial Office is not of such a nature as to justify the employment of the Writing Assistant Class, and that simple and mechanical routine duties in the department should be given to members of the Clerical Class during the initial stages of their career, provided that arrangements can be made to avoid the retention of individual mem- bers of the class on such work for an unduly long period.
Executive Class.
7. The Joint Committee do not contemplate that all offices will contain members of both the Clerical and the Executive Classes (paragraph 36). We find that the work allocated to the Executive Class as described in paragraphs 16, 17, and 32 of the Report is not at present assigned to members of the staff below the Administrative Class to an extent sufficient to justify the employment of the Executive Class in the Colonial Office. We are of opinion that such work cannot be separated from that of the Administrative Class without loss of efficiency, and we consider that the introduction of this class in the department would result in members of the grade being assigned duties which should be performed by members of the Clerical Class. We agree that the work of the department can best be pro- vided for by the appointment of the Administrative and Clerical Classes only, with an adequate number of posts corresponding in grading and pay to those of the Higher Grade of the Executive Class, as contemplated in paragraph 36 of the Report of the Joint Committee.
Absorption of the Existing Classes.
8. We have considered the question of the absorption of the different members of the department into the new classes provided for in the Report of the Joint Com- mittee. The case of the Second Class Clerks and Assistant Clerks presents no diffi- culty, as it is contemplated that, subject to fitness, they will be absorbed in the Cadet Corps and Clerical Class respectively. In view of the opinion of the Joint
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