CIVIL SERVICE CUTS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 281, 22 July 1932, Page 6

CIVIL SERVICE CUTS

WILL HARDSIIIP CASES RECEIYE REASONABLE CONSIDERATION. The adustment ccmmlttee recen.iy appomted by the Govamm'e.h to investigate nardship clanns in the Civii Service as a result oi the iast wage cut is the subject of an editonai i a Ihe Juiy issue of the "Public Servic Journal." Atrer admitting that the 1931 adjustment committee was unable to do something by way of correcting anomaiies, the "Journay" goes on to say in respect to the tribunal for this years: — "We are doubtfal whether genui.ue hardship casus wlil reeeive any reiief, unless the adjusiment committee car. arrange with the Governmcnt for a reasonahle minimum wage for marrieo men to be p°-ovided. Nevertheless, we advise all o.Ticers who consider the'. have clairns to iodge them immediatcly. Apnrt frorn thesc cases, however there is abundant opportunity for the adjustment of ar.omalies, prinv.rll; as a result of the graudated scale of salary reducticns. Pr.rlkularly ii this so in cases of ofRcers receivi.ig slightly over £225 per annum, an thus subject to the 10 per cer.t. cu which has reduced the 10 per cert cut which has reduced many geiiera. . divlsion employees to a wage on the level or only slightly in excess of that received by employees of whom they are in control. All artisans, too, are now below the v/age level obtaining j under awards of the Arbitration Court 1 and the regulatious together with the ■ adjustnrents made by the 1931 com-i mittee .n such cases suggest that; something may he done."