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HNA 430/1

* DEC 1989

BBR

GOVERNORS' TERMS OF SERVICE

1. I am sorry for sitting on these papers.

2. We in PPD have no fundamental objection to seeking the Chief Clerk's approval to pay a responsibility allowance to Governors equated to Grade DS4 or to give them annual leave, as you suggest. But I think we need to consider carefully the advantages and disadvantages of equating Governors of DS4 rank or equivalent to their Diplomatic Service counterparts.

3.

Governorships are not, of course, DS appointments in the sense that they do not form part of the DS establishment. It so happens that many of the governorships are in fact filled by Diplomatic Service officers on outside secondment to the Territory concerned. Their terms of service are, therefore, separate from the Diplomatic Service package and, as PSD suggest, improvements can be proposed and negotiated on their merits. This would ensure, at least, that there was no direct equation between the DS package and the package of conditions of service for Governors.

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Since, however, many of the Governors are Diplomatic Service officers, would there not be some advantage in considering whether their conditions of service should be equated with their Diplomatic Service counterparts serving at DS posts in the same area of the world? This would ensure that a DS officer on outward secondment to a governorship maintains the terms and conditions of service which he would expect had he been serving in an ordinary diplomatic post. It would then be open to consideration whether a Governor at DS4 level should receive a responsibility allowance if it is The muctor believed that they carry greater responsibility than their DS4 counterparts, a view which we think still needs to be properly precise *

tested. Is that they do✓5.

5. Your draft submission also touches on the problems for the DS structure if some of the Governors were upgraded. I am not sure that we would face a serious problem. It would, however, be crucial, if there were more DS3 equated governorships (and we would have a job convincing the CSD on this), for the incumbents coming from the Diplomatic Service to be in their last job before retirement; ie the structural problem would only arise if they were appointed to governorships early and we had to take them back onto the DS establishment for another posting after they had served as Governors.

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SS 8/78

16 October 1980

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G W Hewitt

PPD

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