THE PUBLIC SERVICE RE-GRADING.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18208, 20 October 1924, Page 6

THE PUBLIC SERVICE RE-GRADING.

DISSATISFACTION EXPRESSED, j Considerable dissatisfaction i? being manifested by the State's printers or or the ro-grading list recently published. They maintain that of all the Government Departments invidious treatment lias been extended somewhat harshly to iho printers. Tlieir contention is that if other Departmental officers enjoy an increase of 61.9 per cent, over the pre-war standard, the salaries of skilled crafts in tho Department should! haw been increased to £320 instead of £2<7 1 .'is, at which their salaries still remain, an advance from £-00 pre-war salary, or an increase of 39 per cent. Considerable feeling was manifested at a mass meeting of the employees held rcrentlv, and the following resolution was carried una.nimously: ''That this mass meeting of officers of the Government Printing Office expresses its dissatisfaction with the recent alleged reclassification of members of the staff; places on record its regret that the P.S. Commissioner has ignored the repieseutntions, based: on tho recognised principles'of industrial equity, placed before him ; and provided a list that bears a striking resemblance to the policy of tho New Zealand Ilimploycrs Federation —.high-grade service ajid lowgrade wages. This meeting further requests that tho staff he exempted from the present Public Service Commissioner control by an amendment of the Public Service Act, and that. a. reclassification, be made at an early date by persons technically competent—one, representative of tho management, one of the staff (to be elected by ballot), with an independent chairman to be agreed upon or selected by lot."