Public service pay
Sir,—Anyone interested in one of the causes of our high tax rates should read the interesting article in the “Listener” of May . 16 which says that a Public Service cleaner in a Health Department institution is paid $164.15 a week at the age of 16. That is $8535 a year, for, repeat, a 16-year-old. In the private sector a similar 16-year-old from the Bakers’ Award received $74.38." This discrepancy apparently goes right up the scale. In the private sector, the experienced driver of the biggest truck gets $179.65 as against the 16-year-old’s $164.15 and what is worse this skilled truck driver and the rest of us are being taxed to pay 300,000 of these overpaid and often underworked Public Servants. As the author points out no single political party would dare bring the cosseted P.S.A. back to parity. It will need multi-party agreement and approach.—Yours, etc., . J. C. HALL. May 16, 1981.
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