CO129-577-8 Junior Clerical Service- petition for improvements in salaries and conditions of service 6-7-1939 - 19-12-1939 — Page 48

6.

the Colonial Secretary, who on 31st May, 1937,

replied (Appendix B) giving partial relief to the

prayers of your petitioners.

The result was the creation of a fixed ratio

in the personnel between the various classes, so

that an increase in one class involves an automatic

increase in other classes proportionately.

But

this ratio, though created only a year ago, has

already shewn that it requires revision.

(H) For instance as stated on the second last line of

paragraph 4(B), by January 1937 about 51.7% of the

Establishment had reached maximum salary.

Then

the number of posts was revised during the latter

part of 1937 and on 1st January 1938 some 60 promotions

were effected as follows :-

Higher Class

Class I

Class II

•

Class III

Class IV

Class V

•

•

• ·

1

1

6

8

20

24

But by 1st January 1938 a further 88 persons had

reached maximum salary so that in spite of the

above mentioned promotions the percentage of men

with maximum pay rose to the record of 51.8% of

the total Establishment. This percentage has

risen to a new record in 1939 when a further 65

officers have reached maximum salary, and only

54 promotions were effected. The percentage for

1939 now stands at 53.4%.

The same remark may be made in regard to

1940 and the subsequent years, so that unless the

ratio between senior and junior grades is so

revised as to result in the creation of more

senior posts, the number of men receiving maximum