Page 8, THE HERALD, Monday, August 21, 1978 | Think smait . ‘ by Jim Smith Canada doesn't count for much in the world of indus- try. Our research and deve- lopment efforts, by interna- tional standards, are pretty meagre. And even our re- source producers don’t have as much control over their markets as was once the case. But, when it comes to turning out bureaucrats, Ca- nada is desperately fighting to reach the top. In percapita terms, our civil service has reached awesome propor- tions. But, worse yet, is the fact that, over the past ten years, our bureaucrats, espe- cially at the provincial level, have been the “lead horse” in determining the levels of salaries and fringe benefits in Canada. And that sets those governments apart from those of virtually every other country in the Western Fat Bureaucratic Cats World. West Germany, for example, insists that civil ser- vice remuneration lag slightly behind private incomes. There’s alot more at stake in civil service salaries than simply how high the tax bill is going to be for the rest of us. When bureaucratic sala- ries start running ahead of private wage rates, business finds that it can't get the good workers; all the best people gravitate to govern- ment, The workers who are in the private sector demand higher wages to bring them up with the government em- ployees ~- ~ and an inflationary cycle is started. The problem has reached the point where the federal government's Bill C-28, in- troduced in the last session, includes the stipulation that parity must be achieved be- tween public and private wages. That's a noble objective but reaching it promises to be tougher than might be as- sumed, How, for example, does one actually find the same function with equal re- sponsibilities, for comparison purposes, both inside and outside government? You can't, in most cases, 50 We are immediately faced with the impossibility of making accurate comparisons. Still, it is possible to arrive at some rough approximations. Even assuming that wage rates became identical in both sectors, government employees would still, in fact, be more generously paid. The difference is found in pension plans. One study conducted for the federal government found that the more generous government pensions equalled about 9% higher pay compared to workers in private business. The government has changed . the pension rules recently and eliminated unlimited in- dexing, so some of the diffei- ential is eliminated, But it re- mains true that government peasions are far more liberal than those nun by the busi ness community at large. The lesson should be clear. 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