staff committee of the Shanghai Municipal Council has made a recommendation to the Cotincil to grant an increase in the high cost of living allowance paid to Municipal employees, which is fixed at present at 150 per cent, on basic salaries it was learned yesterday.
The matter has not yet come before the Provisional Municipal Council for consideration, as reported by another source recently, but will be deliberated upon by this body in the near future, Considerable importance is attached to the question, as adjustments of staff pay by the Council have served as an indication for numerous leading firms here.
Tt_was reliably learned that the recommended increase is below the 40 per cent, mentioned in the previous report which, according to well informed quarters, probably arose from the fact that' the cost of living of foreign employees here has gone up 42 per cent, since November last when the Council raised the high cost of living allowance of Municipal servants to 150 per cent, The me ter ease In the Chinese cost-of living {or the corresponding period is 48 per cent, 'Despite the 150 per cent, increase in HEL, allowance which at the time it was granted was, considered by ear tain circles here as' staggering, Municipal employees with few ex= ceptions, have not been paid salaries commensurate with the Index of the cost of living for foreign and Chinese employees here, it was!
certained,
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