CO129-547-10 Memorandum on revision of salaries 1-1-1934 - 31-12-1936 — Page 37

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duction in the pension constant through an increase in

the maximn of the scales. Even in the unse of the

"ordinary civil" scale, in which it is not proposed that

the maximum should be increased, the pensiorable

emoluments of officers serving in the grade abot: the promotion bar will be augmented by an increase in the value of quarters for pension purposes, since the bar occurs at a higher point in the scale than formerly. There soens no justification for withholding from officers serving in super-scale posts a similar measure of compensation, and, indeed, unless sone step of this kind

is taken, a situation will be created in which officers

transferred from a non-East African dependency to super-

scale posts in East Africa will be the only officers

called upon to accept the new pansion constant on pro- motion without some compensating concession affecting the amount of their pancionable emoluments on retirezent.

For these reasons it is suggested that the

proposals for calculating the value of quarters for pepsiDA

purposes in the case of super-scale posts, then are contained in the naification scheme should be accepted and

applied generally in all departments. In that event it melt

be necessary that the table of valuations should be slight modified. In the first place the scheme, which was drawa

up, with regard to the administrative service alone, does not provide for super-scale posts carrying a fixed salary of £1000 a year: and in the second place the retention of the present method of valuing quarters for pension purposes in the case of officers on the long scale makes it necessary to allocate a higher value than £126 to super. scale posts with salries of £1000 and £1050. These points

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