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TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 1989

1986 SURVEY NOT TO BE USED AS SALARY ADJUSTMENT BASIS

* * *

HAS

ACCEPTED

A

RECOMMENDATION

PUT

THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL

OF INQUIRY INTO CIVIL FORWARD IN THE FINAL REPORT BY THE COMMITTEE

USED AS A SERVICE PAY THAT THE 1986 PAY LEVEL SURVEY SHOULD NOT BE BASIS FOR ADJUSTING CIVIL SERVICE SALARIES.

FOR THE CIVIL DECIDED THAT AS A RESULT OF

ANNOUNCING THIS TODAY (TUESDAY), THE SECRETARY SERVICE, MR UARNAM GREWAL, SAID THE GOVERNMENT HAD ALSO IMPROVEMENTS ALREADY AWARDED TO MODEL SCALE 1 STAFF THE 1980 SURVEY WOULD NOT BE WITHDRAWN.

"THIS DECISION TOOK ALL RELEVANT CONSIDERATIONS, INCLUDING COMMITTED'S QUASI-ARBITRATION ROLE, INTO ACCOUNT,

INTO ACCOUNT," HE SAID.

AS FOR THE

THE

ON

TREND COMMITTEE'S RECOMMENDATION

PAY

SURVEY GOVERNMENT HAD ACCEPTED AND WOULD METHODOLOGY, MR GREWAL SAID THE

PAY TREND INDICATORS IMPLEMENT THE PROPOSED FORMULA FOR CALCULATING

CIVIL WHICH FORM THE BASIS FOR CONSIDERING ANNUAL PAY ADJUSTMENTS FOR SERVANTS.

"IN

DECIDED

ΤΟ THE GOVERNMENT HAS ADDITION,

ACCEPT THE COMMITTEE'S RECOMMENDATION THAT FOR THE PURPOSES OF ANNUAL PAY AWARDS, WHERE THE LOWER BAND PAY TREND INDICATOR IS BELOW THAT FOR THE MIDDLE ARE OVERRIDING BAND, IT BE BROUGHT UP TO THE SAME LEVEL UNLESS THERE REASONS FOR NOT DOING SO.

T

RECOMMENDATIONS ON MR GREWAL ADDED THAT THE COMMITTEE'S OTHER PAY TREND SURVEY METHODOLOGY WOULD BE REFERRED TO THE PAY TREND SURVEY THE STAFF SIDES, THE COMMITTEE, WHICH COMPRISED REPRESENTATIVES OF

OF AND CONDITIONS STANDING COMMISSION

SALARIES AND SERVICE, THE STANDING COMMITTEE ON DISCIPLINED SERVICES CONDITIONS OF SERVICE, AND THE ADMINISTRATION.

CIVIL SERVICE ON

SALARIES

TURNING TO THE COMMITTEE'S RECOMMENDATIONS FOR A NEW SYSTEM

SURVEYS, MR GREWAL SAID PAY DETERMINATION BASED ON PAY

LEVEL

GOVERNMENT HAD DECIDED TO TAKE NOTE OF THE SUGGESTIONS MADE.

OF

THE

ON

AN

"THE GOVERNMENT HAS ALREADY INVITED THE STANDING COMMISSION CIVIL SERVICE SALARIES AND CONDITIONS OF SERVICE TO CONDUCT

THE NON-DIRECTORATE CIVIL OVERALL REVIEW OF THE SALARY STRUCTURE OF

SERVICE, WHICH MAY TAKE UP TO TWO YEARS TO COMPLETE.

PAY LEVEL SURVEY AT REVIEW WHICH WILL IN OF INDIVIDUAL

"IT WOULD NOT BE DESIRABLE TO CONDUCT A THE SAME TIME AS THE OVERALL SALARY STRUCTURE ANY CASE EXAMINE THE EXTERNAL RELATIVITIES OF A NUMBER GRADES, HE SAID.

THE

THE

REPORT BY FINAL

OF COMMITTEE

INQUIRY RECOMMENDATIONS ON THE PAY TREND SURVEY METHODOLOGY AND THE LEVEL SURVEY WAS PUBLISHED LAST MONTH.

CONTAINING 1986 PAY

CIVIL SERVICE PAY ADJUSTMENT

ITS INTERIM REPORT ON THE 1988 WAS PUBLISHED AND ACCEPTED BY THE GOVERNMENT LAST YEAR.

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