CIVIL SERVANTS IN FORCES
Pay Difference Will Not Be Made Up The Government is nut prepared to provide for the difference between civil pay and military pay ot civil servants on armed forces service. Tlie latest issue of the “Public .Service Journal states that, the Prime Minister lias advised to tliis effect.
It quotes him as staling that the Government recognized licit some employers. both private individuals and institutions, were adopting tlie practice of making up to their employees the difference between civil and military pay, but it was not considered that thic? in itself was sufficient reason why the State, as trustee for all the people, should adopt si similar practice, specially where tlie jnoney required to make such payments must come from taxation, and that it was preferable that tlie necessary limtneial assistance to enable normal requirements of si soldier and his family to be met should be provided through tlie medium of tlie Soldiers’ Financial Assistance Board.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 250, 21 July 1942, Page 4
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160CIVIL SERVANTS IN FORCES Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 250, 21 July 1942, Page 4
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