POSTAL & TELEGRAPH OFFICERS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1906, 14 November 1913, Page 11

POSTAL & TELEGRAPH OFFICERS.

* CLASSIFICATION LIST. RESOLUTIONS OF CONFERENCE. A conference- of Use Post and Telegraph Officers' Association, held recently, arrive/! «(. f) 10 following resolutions regarding their position under tin- Public Service elassiJieittion list: — 3. That after comparing tho classification list for Post and Telegraph officers with that for oilier Civil .Servants, is ■of opjnwa that different standards *f valuation havo Ijoen adopted when drawing up tho respective lists to the detriment of Post and Telegraph .officers. J'lio conferouco wishes to lay particular stress on positions shown ; 'at maximum" m tho fifth, and sixth classes, 2. All grades <>f thj clerical division atcvo therank and file should be considered 1 with a vicji? to making a general increase in salaries in accordance witu their responsibilities and qualifications, as compared with rank and filo officers, and also to bring these grades into lino with tl'oso of the general Civil Service, as set out in the classification fist. 3. That officers of the general division have not been equitably treated in the classification list, 4. That numbers of Post Office sorters are allocated clerical duties and this constitutes a form of cheap labour for higher grade Work, snd theretore all Post Office sorters,' who hftvo the sixth standard educational pass should be places} in the clerical division. 5. That linemen in chargo of gangs and construction parties, either town -or country, solely emplovrd correcting exchange, faults, and those- in charge e-f lino stations, where there is a telephono osehnnge at the station, or in tho line district, be classified as foremen line- ■ men. 6, That the conference is of opinion that the, Post and Telegraph ehssi-: Hcotwa list should be drawn up on similar Hues' to the Public Service Ckssifi-< cation list. 1. That the conference j urges upon the CommissiMer the necessity of giving the Telegraph Bmneii of the' Service proper representation in the adminietrati/o division. 8. That no deduction should he made from annus! Iflave on account of sick leave. . Overtime and Other Mailers.

9. That tho solution of the overtime problem can best bo solved by u cash payment for all overtime worked in excess of eight hours «m any one day or 40 hours per trade. 10. That "timo off" in liea of overtime is inoquitablo. l\. That payment- for Sunck.v and holiday overtime be rnndfl general, sperinl reference - being raaclo to linemen. 12. Tliat payment of o¥e.rii,Ho after tho :irst ho«r te comptitod on tho ten minutes' basis. 1,1. That vacancifis worth £380 (or over) should be? filltfl by nialf- otficers 14. That officers li'ho arc the sole support of their p-irent or parenla slio-nld bn placed on the same- footing as married ■ofteers. / ! Professional Sjranch. 15. Thai tlio regiil.'itioiis pove-min" the appointment "to tho professional division bo amerced in the direction of providing' "That before appointm«Jits of junior qualified officers are mad© to onginccrittg section .and other liko positions deirmnijini; technical qualifications; oppnrtinii'ty fe first granted to s«cli qualified tr.tjße officers who are prevented from qualifying bv reason of the -ago limit.*' Appeals and Holidays. 17. That officers at tho Post and Telegraph Service should havo tho right of isaminating either of their representatives to rovieiv their appeals.j 18. Thatan appellant should liavo tho right to appear in person or by representative before, tho Appeal Board, 18, That an appellant should have the right to vietv the Commissioners ftnsiver to Iris appeal prior to its coming up for consideration. 20. That the Post and Telegraph Be* partment bo grouted Labour Day a$ a statutory holiday, in place of Dominion Pay, which has been erased frcm the Met of Post Office holidays. .21., That no subscriber's pension under tho Superannuation Act flioulcl bs'lessi than £52 perahmim; .22 That conference strongly objects to the short tinw-lirpit allowed in which to lodge appeal and considers that the thirty dajrs' limit prac* tically renders tTi© Appeal Board useless. Claino 31 provide"! that appeals must 1)6 lodged Within thirty days front tlto time that tlio Commissioner's decj-T'-'-n In<! been tui+'fwd to fin olfieer. Olaitso 60 provides that all appeintmeitts, piomotions, etc., -should bo gazetted, and if the two clauses are- read in conjunction, and publication jn tho Gazette constitutes notifiefltion to an officer, crtnfereneoliolds that the notice is wholly inadequate, and that tho Act should ho, altered so that the 'classification list should be the official notifcation, and that at least uinetv days should be allowed in which to lodge an appeal.