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they only required girls with a general good education. The Government had fixed their pay rates based on PIU reporta and now it was found they were not using it for that purpose, they tried to say something else had been used. She said the Official Side always contradicted itself and that was pot the right attitude of a good employer. A good employer should fulfit their principles.
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Mr. Macs said he should clarify hers. He could interpret those figura sacher bors fully. It was a fact that more than half of the companies they had visited had qualification or demanded their technical or academic skills higher than those required by the Government. He had made it clear in the last meeting that their primary concern saa to look for job contents which were precisely equivalent in qualification. That was the initial matter. That my also a fact that one could use the same logic to say that if qualification was so important, the evidence from private sector should be discounted because the analogues they found in the private sector were better qualified than those required by Government,
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The Chairman then asked was that part of the further evidence they had been keeping back.
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Miss V, So replied no. She then referred to what Mr. Mace had just said.
She said just now the comparison she made with the private - sector was produced by the PIU and it was not faked out by the SAT Unit. Just now, Mr. Hace said that technical skills in private sector might be batter. However, in the last meeting, the Staff Side had already pointed out that in one company, the shorthand speed required was only 50 w.p.a. which was not a functional speed. Government could not accept that.
Government could not accept that. The Official Side could not therefore say that the technical skill of stenogrphere in private sector might be better. She then referred to the question of median. Just now, Mr. Linthemite said entry point was based on qualification and experiance and now the Official Side pointed out it was based on job contents. The Official Side had contradicted itself again. Actually being a new entrant, the job contents were the same taking shorthand and typing. One could not expect the new entrant to do the work of a P.S.
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Mr. Linthwaite said he wanted to make one thing clear that experience pes not a must in the private sector. The entry point for school leavers grades were based on its academic qualifications required for the job plus any technical skills on the job, on the service ride basis, not just for cne grade,
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Miss V. Co said that when she referred to experience, she did not mean what Mr. Linthwaite referred to the minimum point which was based on qualification and experience, she jaut want to prove that both the Government and the private sector only employed school leavers to take the job of a stenographer and because in the PIU reports, it stated that in the private sector, the stenographers were girls in their early 20's. She then pointed out girls in their early 20's had just completed their secondary education and would have no experiance. She also pointed out that in the PIU report, it was stated that no experience was required (only one company required 1 year's experiance). Saturning to the point that the government always said that the government fixed their pay rates basing on the PIU report, but when the PIU report had produced a median point for the minimum, Miss So wondered why Government would not use this median to fix the starting point of the salary scale. The Government always contradicted itself. Miss So further pointed out that for SA23, the required qualification was 5 subjects plus twi
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