THE PUBLIC SERVICE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20961, 26 February 1930, Page 10

THE PUBLIC SERVICE.

CLASSIFICATION LIST. QUINQUENNIAL REGRADING. (Special to Daily Times.) WELLINGTON, ■ February 25. ; The public service classification list, incorporating the results of the \ quinquennial regrading of the service, was issued to-day. There is very little alteration in the salary scales. The‘last regrading took place in 1924. The Public Service Act provides for a grading of officers- in the five principal divisions—administrative, professional, clerical, general," and educational—and the grading of all officers within these divisions is required to he based 0 n the fitness of the officer and the character and importance of the work performed by him. The procedure adopted in connection with the 1924 regrading was to a great extent followed in the regrading now completed. Visits ot inspection were made to the district offices throughout the Dominion for the purpose of affording officers desiring it an opportunity of making personal representations to the commissioners respecting their duties and grading. Prior arrangements were made for a more intensive investigation into the work of each officer by an inspector from the Public b ®ryice Commissioner’s office, while in addition towards the end of last year a comprehensive report on each officer was obtained frpm their respective heads, A* i ■,actual process of regrading an attempt is made to ensure that officers are piaced in such a grade or class ,as will provide each with a salary re laSL co “ m ensur a te with the responpifhl 4 eS t) a i?v the 4i ,tre ? Performed," stated •am. public Service Commissioner., inere exists in some quarters the inw pression. that each five-yearly regrading a , ns a qi p ne . ral raising pf salary stanaards. ibis is entirely wrong. Such a FI!?,, 1 Ce w u 4 ]*ave most undesirable eonsequences, besides being quite unjustified. twnW that with a systematic classification scheme which has been in vogue f or a decade and a-half , lcl - be comparatively few officers require material adjust-, when it is borne in' arelatrvely large number of J abe p K ce in tbe intervals faetween the five-yearly reviews. A general alteratmn of standards would be justified only in the event of some violent fluctuation m the cost of living, causing a proaeration in wage standards outside the public service.” O ffi P + rs desirous of appealing against fivlr, of the commissioner maxim ™ salary payable in respect pf any position in the professional or clerical division, or relating to the grading of any officer, of any other division. may forward notice of the appeal “ ' dlhin 21