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THESDAY, MARCH 7, 1989

THE

RELEASING THE FINAL REPORT AT A PRESS CONFERENCE, THE CHAIRMAN, MR

CONCLUSIONS REPORT CONTAINED GORDON BURRETT, SAID THAT THE

LEVEL SURVEY, FUTURE OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE ISSUES OF THE 1986 PAY PAY DETERMINATION AND THE METHODOLOGY FOR PAY TREND SURVEYS.

THE COMMITTEE HAD

"IN RELATION TO THE 1986 PAY LEVEL SURVEY, REACHED THE VIEW THAT THE METHODOLOGY USED BY THE CONSULTANTS FOR

BUT REPUTABLE PAY COMPARISONS IS SOUND AND

AS REGARDS

HAVE BEEN PREFERABLE.

USED TENDED

ΤΟ OVERVALUE

THE

JOB-FOR-JOB COMPARISONS

FRINGE BENEFITS

SERVICE CIVIL

PRIVATE SECTOR AND

THE BENEFITS GROUNDS FOR THOUGH THE THE CIVIL

WOULD METHODOLOGY ESPECIALLY HOUSING. THERE ARE NEVERTHELESS NO CONVINCING DISPUTING THE GENERAL TENOR OF THE 1986 SURVEY'S DEGREES OF DISCREPANCY SERVICE MUST BE IN DOUBT," HE SAID.

THE BETWEEN

CONSULTANTS

SURVEY,

WERE THE COMMITTEE NOTED THAT WHEN HAY MANAGEMENT

TO CONDUCT

1986 PAY COMMISSIONED

THE

LEVEL

THEY WERE

SPECIFICALLY ASKED TO PROVIDE THE

WITH COMMISSION STANDING

THE CURRENT INFORMATION WHICH WOULD ENABLE THEM TO DETERMINE WHETHER

LINE WITH THAT OF REMUNERATION OF THE CIVIL SERVICE WAS BROADLY IN EMPLOYEES IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR UNDERTAKING COMPARABLE WORK.

AT

THE MAIN EXPRESSLY

THE

HAY PLACED "HOWEVER, SINCE THE METHODOLOGY USED BY

THEY COMPARISONS AND

WERE EMPHASIS ON POINTS/FACTOR

LOOKING PRECLUDED

TO FROM

JOBS,

THIS EXTENT INDIVIDUAL

PERFORCE OF FULLY RESULTING REPORT MAY BE SAID TO HAVE FALLEN SHORT

MR BURRETT SAID. ACHIEVING THE COMPARABLE WORK' OBJECTIVE,

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LEVELS DOES NOT AND

MORALE, BUDGETARY

SURVEY

OF POLICY. TAKEN INTO DIRECTLY FROM A

CONSIDERATIONS,

PAY

WE

VIEW A "HAY HAVE MADE IT CLEAR THAT IN THEIR

SHOULD

REMUNERATION NOT DETERMINE OTHER FACTORS NEED TO BE SHARE THIS VIEW AND BELIEVE ACCOUNT IN DETERMINING PAY APART FROM THOSE ARISING PARTICULAR PAY LEVEL SURVEY, E.G.

AND RETENTION PROBLEMS, SECURITY OF JOB SATISFACTION, RECRUITMENT TENURE, PROMOTION PROSPECTS AND INTERNAL RELATIVITIES. WE THINK THE HAY RESERVATIONS CAST SERIOUS DOUBT ON THE VALIDITY OF THE RESULTS AS AN EXACT INDICATOR OF WHAT CIVIL SERVICE PAY LEVELS HAVE BEEN IN 1986.

THAT

SURVEY

SHOULD

SINCE

SCENE

LEVEL

SUGGESTS THAT "THE EVIDENCE GIVEN TO THE COMMITTEE ALSO

AND REMUNERATION THE 1986 SURVEY WAS CONDUCTED THE EMPLOYMENT

THAT IF A PAY HAD ALTERED RADICALLY. MOREOVER, WE CONSIDER

WHICH CIVIL SURVEY IS TO BEAR THE WEIGHT OF DETERMINING THE RATES AT

STAFF AND SERVANTS ARE TO BE PAID IT MUST HAVE THE CONFIDENCE OF THE THIS CANNOT BE ACHIEVED WITHOUT ADEQUATE CONSULTATION.

Ог THE TIME FACTOR, CONCLUSION CONFIDENCE. OUR

DO NOT PROVIDE SURVEY'S FINDINGS

A PAY

"WE THINK THAT IN 1986 POSSIBLY BECAUSE NOT ENOUGH HAD BEEN DONE TO WIN THAT THEREFORE IS THAT THE 1986 SUFFICIENT BASIS FOR MAKING SPECIFIC ADJUSTMENTS TO CIVIL SERVICE EITHER NOW OR IN THE FUTURE,"

/FOR FUTURE