THE SALARY CUT

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 1, 1 July 1922, Page 8

THE SALARY CUT

RPPLYOTG HARDSHIP. CLAUSE METHOD-OF BfIOCEDUBB. Ona of th» point* made by the Labour members of Aft House of Bepresentairvea yosterdßy was that .there Sad been undue delay in iaeaang the regulations to 'carry out the hardship clause of the Public ErpendfUHo Adjustment Act. Tho jPrimo MiiristeE, in saying that these ■things cotild not be done all in a mo■inont, stat^i that tbe regulations had-' mow been approved! and issued. ..TheseTOgTiiaiiomshow. Ikhat tho clause > fitr'to- be fancied out by a commifctee\xm2>rising the' Public Service Commissionor, iflie Secretary to 'the Treasury, "the General Manager of Bail-ways, and the Secre-1 kary to tho-Post and Telegraph Depairtjtienf.""The'"PuTjlic Service Commissioner Os chairman. Applications may be made to tho board Bor relief frem har&hip t: hrough tho perjjnanent head of the department in wfiioh tthe applicaTit is employed, and the claim swill bo forwarcted by him to the cony pmittea with a report and recommendaition.

The .application shall specify,as oon(icisely as possible the' special grormds on 'jwWch relief is claimed, and it shall also specify:—(c) The rate of vetunneiation las at 31st December, 1921; fb) the rateof remuneration as at 31st March, 1922.

No application will bo considered' from fi,' person who at 31st December, 1921, {was in soceipfc of a salary of £500. The jrecjulation also provides that in determining -whether any case of hardship texists, tho Adjnsinien't Committee shall ißgard the rates* of reduction as fixed by ftie Public Expenditure Adjustment Act as' primarr^-. .applicable ta persons who on 31st December. I&21, were employedin position for which at that date the annual rate of remuneration was not less than £50 in excess of the annual rat© [payable in respect of the same or similar position on 31st March, 1920, and no ap-Sp-licrXion for, relief shall be gTanted in /such case.