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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1990

LETTERS PATENT AND CIVIL SERVICE REGULATIONS EXPLAINED

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TODAY

THE SECRETARY FOR THE CIVIL SERVICE, MR BARRIE WIGGHAM,

THE PROVISIONS OF CIVIL (TUESDAY) EXPLAINED THE LETTERS PATENT AND SERVICE REGULATIONS RELATING TO INDUSTRIAL ACTION BY CIVIL SERVANTS.

PRESS ENQUIRIES CONCERNING THE IN A STATEMENT RESPONDING TO

AND FIVE CIVIL MEETING TODAY BETWEEN CIVIL SERVICE BRANCH OFFICIALS

MANAGEMENT OF ALL SERVICE UNIONS, MR WIGGHAM SAID AS IN THE CASE OF

ΤΟ REGULATIONS LARGE ORGANISATIONS, THE GOVERNMENT NEEDS

WHICH HAS AN ENSURE

THE

RULES AND THE CIVIL SERVICE, OF RUNNING SMOOTH ESTABLISHMENT OF ABOUT 190,000 STAFF IN 440 DIFFERENT GRADES.

CIVIL SERVICE REGULATIONS WERE DRAWN UP FOR THE LETTERS PATENT PROVIDE THE GOVERNOR WITH THE SECRETARY FOR THE CIVIL SERVICE, REGULATIONS.

THIS PURPOSE AND THE AUTHORITY, THROUGH ΤΟ DRAW UP AND

SUCH

ENFORCE

RESPONSIBILITY OF DEPARTMENT THESE

MR WIGGHAM ADDED THAT IT WAS THE HEADS TO DRAW THE ATTENTION OF THEIR STAFF FROM TIME TO TIME TO RULES OR REGULATIONS.

IS DRAWN

TO

PROVISIONS

IN THE

IN

WAS

FOR EXAMPLE, ATTENTION ACCEPTANCE OF ADVANTAGE REGULATIONS IN ADVANCE OF FESTIVE SEASONS. THE CASE OF NON-PERFORMANCE OF DUTIES, THE ATTENTION OF THE STAFF DRAWN TO POSSIBLE SANCTIONS.

THEY

HAD A DUTY TO MR WIGGHAM SAID CIVIL SERVANTS OBVIOUSLY

ΤΟ DISCHARGE HAD A RESPONSIBILITY PUBLIC AND, AS EMPLOYEES,

THE

THEIR DUTIES.

GRIEVANCES AIRING

SERVICE OF

AND ANY SHOULD

BE

THERE ARE AMPLE AVENUES FOR SUGGESTIONS TO IMPROVE THEIR CONDITIONS DISCUSSED IN THE FIRST INSTANCE WITH THEIR HEADS OF DEPARTMENT.

ADDED.

"ALL REPRESENTATIONS WILL BE GIVEN CAREFUL

NOT

ΤΟ SUCCUMB WILL THE GOVERNMENT ACTION BY CIVIL SERVANTS IN PRESSING FOR THEIR EMPHASISED.

CONSIDERATION,"

KE

OF

THREATS

INDUSTRIAL DEMANDS," MR WIGGHAM

COMMENTING ON THE DEMANDS BY POSTAL WORKERS, MR WIGGHAM ON THEM TO EXERCISE PATIENCE.

CALLED

AS THOSE HE SAID THEIR PAY AND CONDITIONS OF SERVICE, AS WELL

REVIEWED BY THE STANDING OF 214 OTHER GRADES, WERE CURRENTLY BEING COMMISSION ON CIVIL SERVICE SALARIES AND CONDITIONS OF SERVICE.

WAS SINGLED "IT WOULD NOT BE FAIR IF THE POSTAL WORKERS' CASE

THEY THREATENED INDUSTRIAL OUT FOR SPECIAL TREATMENT SIMPLY BECAUSE ACTION, HE SAID.

"

MR WIGGHAM SAID THREATENING CHRISTMAN MAIL WAS TANTAMOUNT TO BLACKMAIL AND, IF CARRIED OUT, BE A GREAT DISSERVICE TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC.

TO

DISRUPT

THE

DELIVERY

OF

WOULD

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