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INFORMATION IN SUPPORT OF OUR CLAIM FOR EQUITABLE RATE OF PAY

A. The P.I.U. Report of a Pay Survey of the Secretarial Class

as at 1.4.73 Appendix E (page 1) Para, 2

"The practical problems of collecting the data are such that

they materially affect the interpretation of the results. It is therefore necessary to examine in some detail the existing guidelines given to Government."

Appendix E (page)1) Para.3

"The 1905 Salaries Commission Report advised, and Government accepted, that in adopting a fair comparison pay policy the Civil Service should set its pay level at that of a good employer in the private sector, good employers being defined

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Para.60 ".....cmployers paying rates close to the upper.

quartile of rates in respect of a comparable occupation."

This defined a good employer in terms of salary level. To set the Civil Service rate in accordance with this advice it would be necessary to construct a league table of pay rates for all typos of employer (1.e. very poor to excellent) which either calls for a very large survey, to be sure of getting the full spectrum, or formsone skilled juigment as to which

The are poor and which are excellent employers in pay terus. former method would be reasonably time-consuming and probably Inconclusive in that the poor employers would be unlikely to cooperate with the Unit; the latter would be subjective and would probably lead to dispute between the Official Side and the Staff Side, and again the poor employers would be unlikely to cooperate."

Appendix E (page 1) Part. 4

".....the 1965 Salaries Commission was presumably influenced by

the 1953/55 Priestley Royal Commission on the U.I. Civil Service, it is interesting to note the following extracts from the Priestley Report:--

para. 172 ".....if it were possible to obtain for any specific job a set of rates representative of the commmity as a whole which could he arranged in order from top to bottom..... the Civil Service rate should be not lower than the median but not above the upper quartile."

/para. 173 .....

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