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Wednesday, February 14, 1973

REPORT ON TEACHERS' PAY PUBLISHED

Scale Of $1,175

$1,750 Recommended For Certificated Masters

A scale of $1,175 - $1,750 has been recommended by the Working

Group appointed, under the chairmanship of Mr. J.C. Morgan, to consider

salaries for certificated masters.

The former salary scale for the grade was $1,044 - $1,598. The

Government offered to raise this to $1,175 - $1,750, but the staff side maintained

that the appropriate scale should be set at $1,250

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$1,950.

The matter was referred to the Working Group, after lengthy

discussions had proved inconclusive in the Senior Civil Service Council.

In its report, published today, the Working Group has also

recommended an "extra-scale", applicable to long-serving teachers who for

one reason or another do not continue to have normal promotion prospects,

or who prefer not to accept the additional responsibility which goes with

promotion.

Such teachers, once over the age of 30, and with at least five

years service at the top of the new scale, would receive three further

increments over a period of years to a maximum of $1,975.

Following publication of the report, comments received from interested

parties in the next four weeks will be considered by the Government before

any decisions are taken on the Working Group's recommendations. It is

likely that in the implementation of the proposals, the five-year period

recommended would be backdated to April 1, 1971.

/The Working