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light of this information the value of each rank was assessed using a factor system which took account of, among other things, skill, knowledge of work, training and physical effort required. In addition, account was taken of the job content and the extent to which it might involve enforcement duties involving confrontation with the public likely to result in bodily harm.

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The immediate problem encountered in conducting a review of individual Model Scale 1 grades is that there are variations in the job performed by a particular grade both between departments and within divisions of the same department. In some cases these differences are dealt with by the payment of allowances but in other cases not. Except where these differences are significant enough to justify a revised grading our approach has therefore been to consider the range of jobs performed by a particular grade in arriving at our recommended rank scales.

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In Report No. 2, we mentioned that educational qualifications had little significance in determining the pay of grades paid from Model Scale 1. The "qualification method" which we have adopted for establishing the benchmark entry points for grades on the Master Pay Scale and for determining the "qualification" groups therefore does not apply here. However, because of the wide range of jobs performed by different grades, we consider that they should be broadbanded under four groups. The major departure from the system used for the Master Pay Scale grades is that instead of using the educational qualification method, we have used the method described in paragraph 6.13 in determin- ing the appropriate group for each grade.

6.16

Thus, although our proposed Model Scale 1 no longer provides for the division of employees into Workman II, Workman I, Artisan and Senior Artisan segments, we recommend that individual grades on Model Scale 1 should continue to be broadbanded within four pay groups, MOD 1-4, MOD 5 - 10, MOD 11 - 17 and MOD 18

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The revised rank scales also

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take account of the abolition of sub-segments.

Recommendations on Individual Grades

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Our recommendations on individual Model Scale 1 grades are set out in paragraphs 6.19 - 6.74. They include a number of recommendations for the regrading of ranks. effecting these regradings the conversion rules set out in paragraph 3.17 should be applied. Since we did not review individual Model Scale 1 grades in our Report No. 2, the changes in rank scales should be implemented with effect from the 1st October 1979, wherever practicable, within the framework of the existing scale.

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While in general we feel that changes in titles should best be dealt with by departments in consultation with

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