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STANDING COMMISSION ON CIVIL SERVICE SALARIES AND

CONDITIONS OF SERVICE

PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES GOVERNING THE SALARY STRUCTURE

OF THE CIVIL SERVICE

I Introduction

Appendix G

Previous Salaries Commissions have conducted their reviews and produced their reports, leaving it to the Government to implement those recommendations which could be practically introduced. As its name implies the Standing Commission on Civil Service Salaries and Conditions of Service is different. It is a continuing organisation whose task is not only to review civil service salaries and conditions of service, having regard to the situation which exists at present, but to keep them under review in the light of future developments.

2.

As a Standing Commission, it has no obligation to produce a single comprehensive report. Indeed to attempt to do so would only lead to delay and to the lack of adequate consultation which has been the subject of so much complaint by civil servants in the past. The Commission therefore intends to conduct its review in stages and to report on particular aspects of civil service salaries and conditions of service as soon as it is satisfied that such aspects have been thoroughly examined and that adequate consultation with staff and management has taken place.

3.

The Standing Commission has now considered all the representations received on the key principles and practices governing the salary structure of the civil service. These representations have raised a number of issues on which the Commission feels staff and management should have a further opportunity to comment before the Commission makes its recommendations to government. The purpose of this document is briefly to outline these issues and to seek any further views which staff and management may have before the Commission reaches its conclusions.

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