CO129-577-8 Junior Clerical Service- petition for improvements in salaries and conditions of service 6-7-1939 - 19-12-1939 — Page 11

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withdrawal of the privilege of rent

allowances from officers para promoted

under the new scheme. Rent allowance is

at present granted to an officer only after

10 years continuous service, and on the

scales set out in enclosure 5 to the

despatch;

and one of the requests contained

in the present petition (paragraphs 5 and 15)

is that rent allowance should be paid to

members as soon as they enter the Service,

and at revised rates. The Governor considers

that the system is quite artificial (paragraphs

13 and 14 of the despatch) and the present

moment appears to him to be the right one for

starting its gradual abolition as far as the

Junior Clerical Service is concerned. The

method he suggests is to absorb rent allowances

into salary as opportunity offers, i.e. the

allowances drawn by existing officers would not

be touched except on promotion, when an

would be brought on to his new

officer

scale at the incremental point immediately

above his existing salary + rent allowance.

The other points raised in the

petition are minor ones, and are touched upon

briefly in paragraph 16 of the despatch.

What

the Governor seeks is the Secretary of State's

general approval in principle for a reorganisation

of the grading of the Service on the lines

suggested