PUBLIC SERVICE

Grey River Argus, 15 June 1946, Page 4

PUBLIC SERVICE

TEMPORARY MEMBERS To Get Permanent Status P.A. WELLINGTON, June 14. Considerable satisfaction is being expressed through the Public Service at the impending solution of what has been called the “tempories’ problem”—the presence in the Public Service of many thousands of temporary - employees without any real status, said the General Secretary of the Public Service Association, Mr. J. Turnbull, to-day. The Government has recently expressed itself as willing to make necessary amendments to legislation as desired by the Public Service Association, and the Public Service Commissioner, to give a permanent status to' the' great majority of the temporaries, Commenting that the Government’s decision was the culmination of a long campaign waged by the Public Service Association on behalf of the temporaries, Mr. Turnbull recalled' that the Commissioner’s 1945 report had shown that the temporary employees numbered approximately seventeen thousand five hundred, as compared with thirteen thousand permanent employees. He added: “It will take time for the process of absorbtion to be completed, and no doubt administrative problems will arise. The Association feels however, that its plan had 1 covered most of the possible contingencies, and that the transition to permanent service will proceed with a minimum of friction and delay.