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CHAPTER 10
FURTHER RECOMMENDATIONS ON CERTAIN GRADES
10.1
of the staff representations we have received most were concerned with the pay and structure of individual grades. Some contained new or additional evidence to justify reconsideration of our previous advice. Our proposals and comments on those grades on which we have reached conclusions are contained in this Chapter.
10.2
The grades are listed in alphabetical order, and the numbers following the grade title in brackets indicate the chapter and paragraph in which reference to the grade was made in Report No. 2. The group in which we consider a particular grade should be placed, for example, school certificate or matriculation, is shown in Table I. Pay scales are shown by reference to points on the Master Pay Scale unless otherwise specified.
10.3 Assessor (13.16)
450 posts
In paragraph 13.16 of Report No. 2 we recommended that Assistant Assessors who obtained the full professional qualification but did not possess the one-year post- qualification experience required of direct entrants should enter at one point below the minimum of the scale, i.e. Point 33. Both the staff and their department have expressed concern over this recommendation.
Subsequently, we were made aware of the fact that there were a number of other professional grades where a similar situation could exist. The options available to us are therefore to recommend extending the arrangement we have proposed for Assessor to the other professional grades or to change our recommendation for the Assessor grade. On balance, we consider we should restore the position whereby Assistant Assessors on promotion proceed to the point appropriate to direct entrants on the grounds that the experience gained while serving in the lower rank in Government is of equal value to the one year post- qualification experience obtained outside Government by direct entrants and that they have demonstrated suitability for promotion in all respects. In other words, all Assistant Assessors on promotion should enter at the minimum of the Assessor pay scale, i.e. Point 34.
scales.
There should be no change to the existing pay
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