CO129-577-8 Junior Clerical Service- petition for improvements in salaries and conditions of service 6-7-1939 - 19-12-1939 — Page 15

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every six of those attaining the maximum of Class I (which would normally be after only to years

further!

the

service, at age 3would have alotones of getting

being held up there indefinitel

de I think to put it another way, The average wait at This point might become as much as 15 years.

It is questionable, therefore, whether,

unless the establishment-proportion of the proposed

new Special Class can be substantially increased,

there would be such a substantial concession to the

Service, even on the issue of "stagnation", as to

make the proposed deprivation of rent allowance a

reasonable quid pro quo.

I would mention in passing that I assume the

proposed three Grades of the new Special Class must

be regarded in practice as being consecutive on each

other, and not concurrent as shown in Mr. Galsworthy's

table.

Another point about the proposed new Special

Grade, consisting entirely of specific posts, is that in

practice

(usually

such a rigid system/leads to discontent.

The

men who are lucky enough to be "in the succession" for

the specific posts are in clover, but those in other

departments who, not necessarily through lack of

enterprise, never get a chance to acquire the type of

experience required for an existing "specific post"

are, unless such a post is created for them, deprived

of any prospect of getting beyond the $2,600 point.

Finally, the exclusion of these specific

posts from the right to qualify for acting allowance, as

proposed in paragraph 10 of the despatch, seems rather

invidious unless posts of similar status in other

branches of the public service are similarly excluded.

Rent allowance