NATIONAL REGISTER.
PUBLIC SERVICE ATTITUDE. WELLINGTON, April 27. Statements published recently regarding a proposal that members of the Public Service should be asked to work overtime without pay on the compilation of a national register of manpower, are challenged by the secretary of the Public Service Association, Mr F. W. Miller. The report that the proposal had been killed owing to the unfavourable attitude of the younger men of the service is flatly contradicted by Mr Miller. “Now that publicity has been given, to what is a purely domestic matter of the association,” Mr Miller states, “it is necessary to outline the exact position. Neither the Government, through the Public Service Commissioner, nor the Public Service Association has made any proposal that the work of compiling the manpower register should he carried out by public servants working overtime without pay, therefore no question of rejection or ‘abandonment’ can arise. What did happen was that the association asked its representatives in the various departments _to discuss with the staff's the practicability or otherwise of the work being carried out and an indication of the numbers of staff who would possibly he available for six -or seven months’ work, the idea being thatvolunteers should lie limited in the main to senior officers who would not be eligible for war service. The junior officers as a group were, therefore, not regarded as eligible, either by reason of the fact that the majority of them are engaged in nightly studies, which should not he interfered with for too long a period, are pending enlistments, or are already being called upon by their own departments to work some overtime.
“. . , In our view, taking all the circumstances into consideration, including the growing demands for overtime work within officers’ own departments, it is doubtful whether it would he practicable to compile the manpower register efficiently and promptly wholly by part-time workers.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 126, 27 April 1940, Page 8
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314NATIONAL REGISTER. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 126, 27 April 1940, Page 8
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