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links to the Royal Air Force, although of benefit in many respects, are now somewhat anachronistic. The RHKAAF has not flown an armed aircraft for over 30 years and its role is exclusively civilian; it is in no sense an air force.
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For these reasons, we propose that the RHKAAF should become a civilian disciplined service called the Government Flying Service. Work has begun on revising the legislation, and a draft Government Flying Service Bill will be put to the Council at the end of the year.
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With the proposed change in the unit's legal status, we also propose that it should join the disciplined services group of departments for the purposes of pay. This would match the RHKAAF's current organisation and functions. The fact that the RHKAAF has not been paid as а disciplined service in the past has meant that its members have been required to undertake duties comparable to those of ot her disciplined services without this being reflected in their This has caused problems with staff management, recruitment and retention. This is particularly worrying, given the unit's planned rapid expansion and increase in the scope of its duties, over the next few years. The problems are worst in the
in the Engineering section, with a 20% wast age of experienced technicians in the last eight months and little success with recent recruiting exercises, but there are also problems in recruiting aircrew and other staff.
pay.
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When Mr A.H. Rennie was commissioned as Chairman of the Committee to review the pay and conditions of service of the disciplined services, he was also asked in his personnal capacity to conduct a separate study of the RHKAAF. In particular, he was asked to recommend how the
how the unit could be transferred ont o the disciplined services' pay scale. In November 1988, Mr. Rennie made proposals for such a transfer, based on the General Disciplined Services (Officer) pay scale. These are acceptable to the RHKAAF, Security Branch and Civil Service Branch subject to a
to a few modifications which are necessary mainly to prevent certain ranks from receiving unjustifiably large pay increases. The proposed pay scales, as modified by Government, are set out at the Annex.
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If Members advise in principle that the RHKAAF should be paid as a disciplined service, we will submit the scales at the Annex to the Standing Committee on Disciplined Services Salaries and Conditions of Service for advice. It is intended that the new pay scales should be introduced as soon as possible, backdated to 1 April 1989, ahead of the introduction of the new Ordinance, for two
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.