EAST AFRICA REVISION OF SALARIES.
1. The main factors which must be taken into
consiueration in revising scales of salary generally
were discussed in the Colonial Office Memorandum
bofore the Governors' Conference in March, 1933. They
may be briefly summarised as follows:-
(a) The Service must be sufficiently
attractive to men of the requisite
standard of education and personality
to compete with opportunities for employment
outside the Government sphere.
(b) Salaries must be not only appropriate to an
officer's position, but adequate to enable
him to undertake the normal commitments of a
married man at a reasonably early stage in
his career.
(c) Changes in salary scales must take account
of changes in conditions of service in
other irections, particularly in this
case in the pension constant.
(a) Changes in economic conditions in recent
years justify some corresponding adjustment
in Civil Service remuneration and tne
financial position of the various
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Governments demands that no reasonaule
opportunity of effecting economies should
be neglected..
It is desirable in general to maintain as
great a measure of uniformity as possible
in regard to salary scales in the ast
Alrican Dependencies, since a dependency
which offers less favourable terms cannot
expect
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