CO129-511-4 Application for posts at University of Hong Kong- payment and conditions of Service 28-4-1928 - 6-9-1928 — Page 101

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There is a general obligation on members of the staff

to take part in internal University examinations, at present

without payment, and also to take part in conducting the

Matriculation and Local Examinations, payment in the latter case being made according to a scale fixed by Council.

Owing to the difficulty of replacing members of the

staff absent on long leave, members of the staff in service

are required to assist in any reasonable way in carrying on

the teaching work of the University, and may in this connection be required from time to time to deliver lectures on subjects of which they have a sufficient knowledge but

which are outside the work for which they are primarily

engaged. It is a rule of the University that for such

additional work no special payment is made.

Members of the staff are not entitled to take outside

work without the authorisation of the Council.

The first contract does not carry the right to long

leave, but upon renewal of the contract the time already

served counts for long leave in the future. So far as the

exigencies of the service permit, the long leave granted (which is on full sterling pay) approximates to 9 months

leave (in which a long vacation is included) after 4 years

of actual service. Full passages (up to a maximum equivalent

to the P. and 0. return fare) are at present paid for

members of the staff, their wives and children under sixteen

when proceeding on and returning fra long leave.

Members of the staff, are generally speaking, free to

travel in the Far East during the summer long vacation,

though the conduct of the summer Matriculation Examination

may to some extent limit this right. In the Engineering

Faculty, members of the Faculty may be required to take

charge in rotation of the engineering plant during the

summer