POSTAL EMPLOYEES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17230, 5 August 1919, Page 8

POSTAL EMPLOYEES.

■ RECENT CLASSIFICATION, 1 MANY OBJECTIONS MADE. RESOLUTION BY CONFERENCE. [By TELEGRAPH.—PB.ESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON. Monday. * The conference of the Post and Tele- * graph Officers"' Association was continued today. About 60 remit? from various \ branches, covering the opinions of the ser- * vice regarding the new salary schedules, ■were considered. The following resolution was carried :— "That this conference submits, on the following grounds, that the reclassification, as disclosed by the classification Hat recently issued, is hot satisfactory* (a) That j it has not provided a fixed increase to all ] pre-war maxima to cover the increased j coat, of living, as lias been accepted as a ' fair basis cf reclassification by the Public ] Service Commissioner and the Railway De- \ Eartinent. (b) That no sufficient effort , as been made to differentiate between j officers on the ground of superior anility . or lack of ability, (c) That the guarantee , 3 of a minimum salary after the completion j of the training period of five years {vac- j elusive of the telegraph messenger ser- , vice) has not been given effect to. {&) , That the consequential effect of the failure to embody the principle of this guarantee , has been to leave officers with a consider- . able length of service beyond the messenfer stage in a position where they cannot , o justice to the needs of their dependants, '. should they be married, or to assume the full rights of manhood and set up homes for themselves should they be single, (e) That maay officers in the general division, with a shorter service and performing '' ! lower grade duties, "have Been allotted ■ better salaries than division offi- < cers of longer service, who are performing i efficiently higher grade duties." ' .in,, -■ ■ ,j. -I: i ■-, 1 __ _ i