57   Excessive salaries of officers of Departments

(1988 Act, s 52)

(1)  This section applies where:

(a)  the appropriate Department Head is satisfied that an officer of the Department is in receipt of a greater salary than the maximum fairly appropriate to the work performed by the officer, and

(b)  the Department Head has taken all practicable steps to secure the transfer of the officer to an on-going public sector position (within the meaning of section 56) that is appropriate to the salary of the officer.

(2)  The appropriate Department Head may, with the approval of the Commissioner, reduce the salary of any such officer who is not performing work appropriate to his or her salary to the maximum determined by that Department Head to be appropriate to the work performed by the officer.

(3)  An officer whose salary is reduced under this section:

(a)  remains eligible for promotion as if the officer’s salary had not been reduced, and

(b)  is entitled to obtain work in the Department at the previous salary of the officer as soon as such work becomes available in preference to any other officer whose salary has not been reduced.