CO129-534-2 Correspondence and reports of Salarie's Report Anomalies Committee 22-1-1931 - 13-7-1932 — Page 69

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Harbour Office staff for painting buoys and supervising

byphoon signals (Salaries Report, paragraph 173 (v) ) cannot in our opinion be justified and should not be continued to new employees.

Daily paid employees should, however, receive overtime pay on the usual scale (cf. (a) supra) whether

they receive a bonus or not.

(e)

We have now to suggest a scale of payment and

here lies the real difficulty of applying the Salaries

Report as it stands. For while we agree with the

Commissioners that overtime payment should be "roughly

calculated according to the salary limits of the

officers concerned" we are unable to see how that

principle is carried out by the scale in paragraph 171

of their Report, Deducting Sundays, holidays and Saturday afternoons the average your contains about

230 sevon-hour days or 1,960 hours, say 2,000 hours.

An hour's work of an officer on $7,000, is therefore

valued at $3.50 and for five hours and three hours

overtime respectively the just payments would be

$17.50 and $10.50. But the scale in paragraph 171

allows him $10 and $10 only, while paragraph 172

allows certain luckier colleagues to draw at the still

more favourable rate of $5 an hour. We cannot

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reconcile these findings and can only strike out on

a new line. We recommend that, with the exception

montioned in clause (f) below and subject to clauses

(a) ..