CO129-577-8 Junior Clerical Service- petition for improvements in salaries and conditions of service 6-7-1939 - 19-12-1939 — Page 47

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classes are too few in proportion to those in the

lower classes.

There are today 67 posts in the

top three classes as compared with (652) in the

bottom four classes. In Class VI (A and B) the

total of 376 men is greater than the entire

personnel in the remaining classes.

Above all, it requires at least 40 years to

reach the maximum salary of the Higher Class but,

as it so often happens, a man's promotion may be

blocked at one stage or other of his career, SO

that it may take as long as 50 years to reach the

top. But as Section 10 of the Pensions Ordinance

No. 21 of 1932 requires a public servant to

retire at the age of 55, this makes the attain-

ment of the maximum salary of Higher Class un-

realisable in practice for the majority of your

petitioners, however loyal and efficient they

may be.

This point was commented upon in

paragraph 19 of the Report of the Salaries Com-

mission 1929 :

"Another general grievance was the (small) size of increments and the length of time that it takes an officer to reach the top of the scale. We think that the grievance is in many cases justified.

As a result of this comment, certain improvements

were made, but these are still inadequate.

(G) Another factor which reduces still further the

chance of promotion is that, for some years past,

posts in the lower grades were increased without

a corresponding increase in the higher posts.

This matter was the subject of a letter

(copy of which is enclosed as Appendix A) dated

12th March, 1937, addressed to the Honourable