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Minor Staff, Artisans and Foremen.
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There has, in the past, been a considerable diversity in the scales of pay for minor staff, artisans and foremen. Some of these scales differ only slightly from others. Some appear to have been created for individual holders of posts and there are wide diversities in the rates paid to mon of presumably comparable degrees of skill in various deportmonts. We are of the opinion, as stated in paragraphs 18 and 19 of Chapter II, that in futuro, as many of the lower grade staff as possible should be employed on daily rates of pay with a guaranteed 30-day month. We realise, however, that it may not be possible to put such a policy into offcct immodi atoly and that it may be found preferable to retain certain classes of workers falling within these categories on mo thly rates of pay. We have therefore put forward recommendations for scales of monthly pay for minor staff, artisans and foremen, which, in our opinion, will result in the elimination of many unnecessary minor differences in grading and will produce a simpler and more logical wage structure for the lower grades of the service. Wo have based our recommendations on a slightly modified form of the grading used in Civil Affairs Circular No. 67 of 12th Decombor, 1945, in accordance with which wo have provided scales for minor staff, for semi-skilled workers, for two grades of artisans and for foremon and OVCFSCOTS. The minor staff grado will in the main consist of coolics, offico mossengers, sextons, notice servers, cleanors, scamen, caretakers, pointsmen, porters, gatemen, fomalo attendants, platolayers, trolleymen, rat catchers, rat searchers, latrino attendants, female escorts, female scarchors, park keepers, bathhouse attendants, bargomen, ment porters and certain mahs, cooks, scrvants, gardeners, foresters and stokors. Frovision has been made for certain officers within this class whose duties are moro exacting
The or more responsible to enter the scale half way up. semi-skilled grade will include office attendants, stono polishers, guards and watchmon, the H.K.V.D.C. range Wardon, telephone boys, lift operators, tapomon, loading scamon, station attendants, road survey coolics, cadrossograph operators, sound projector operators, laboratory attendants, packers, store attendants, koymen, boy dressers, grooms, ambulence attendants, dispensary boys, motor mower drivors, prossmen, bathhouse ongincors, stoorsmon, skilled labourers, tallymon, assistant junk coxswains, and certain boatmon, painters, stokers, cmahs, ward-boys, house-boys, boys, cooks, gardeners and sextons. Artisans aro divided into two grados. Grade II will consist of workmen not fully qualified for Grade I and those employed in trades where a lesser degroo of skill or a shorter period of apprenticeship is required than for Grade I. Grado II will includo light attendants, hoad guards, head watchmon, signalmon, painters, sailmakors, drain tosters, coxswain-firomon, carriage cleaners, tracers, assistant headmen, mortuary attendants, assistant armourer attendants, loading gordonors, and certain forcmon in the Forestry and Gardons Departments, artisans and junk coxswains in the Sanitary Department and captain boatswains, launch onginoors, coxswains and house-boys. Among Grade I artisans we have grouped motor drivers, lighthouse mechanics, carpenters, clcctricians, riggors, shunters, electric wolders, moulders, hoadmon, fitters, dontal mechanics, disinfecting station engineers, the armourer attendant, motor mochanics and wrtain boatswains, launch coxswains and ongincers,
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