P_048.doc

HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE

                  Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex


                      HCO POLICY LETTER OF 20 JULY 1966
                            AMENDED 19 MARCH 1968


Remimeo





                                STAFF STATUS


                 (Corrects all earlier Sec Eds and Pol Ltrs)





    The intentions of the staff status system and the conduct of it  require
a clarification as follows:

                                  TEMPORARY


    1. After two weeks' employment, if a newly hired staff member can obtain
    a
    written recommendation from his immediate superior, he can report to the
    Staff
    Training  Officer  in  the  Qualifications  Division,   give   him   the
    recommendation and
    receive the training materials for provisional. He can then study  these
    and get checked
    out on them by the Staff Training Officer and if passed, get  his  Staff
    Status One,
    Provisional.

                           STATUS ONE PROVISIONAL


    2. When the Provisional Staff Member has his Staff Status  One,  he  can
    receive
    the materials for Staff Status Two from the Staff Training  Officer  and
    begin to study
    and pass them by check outs from day to day. When  he  has  passed  them
    all, he is given
    a written examination and, passing this, he  obtains  his  Staff  Status
    Two.

                              STAFF STATUS TWO


    3. When a staff member has his Staff Status Two he  can  apply  for  the
    materials
    for Staff Status Three, executive rating, and so on up the Staff  Status
    levels.

    Obtaining an executive Staff Status does not ensure the  appointment  as
an
executive but makes one eligible for such appointment.

    The one year service between One and Two is abolished.

    Only a Staff Status Two is now eligible for contract.

    Staff Status Two, if on contract, is entitled to free processing  up  to
Grade V, a
50% discount on training and  further  processing  and  uniforms.  No  lower
status has
these privileges. This is true for all Orgs, SH, WW and AO.

    A Temporary Status staff member may be dismissed, transferred or demoted
without any Ethics action. Any person  still  a  temporary  status  after  3
months on staff
will be let go.

    A Staff Status One must have been given  an  Ethics  Hearing  and  found
guilty of a
misdemeanor or more in order to be dismissed but may be transferred  without
a
hearing.

    A Staff Status Two must be given  a  Committee  of  Evidence  and  found
guilty
beyond reasonable doubt to be dismissed and an Ethics Hearing to be  demoted
or
transferred.

    A deputy or acting appointment may be demoted without Ethics action, but
only
to the last permanent grade.

    Staff Members may request transfer or demotion without Ethics action.

                                   PENALTY


    If a Staff Member breaks his Contract, leaving  employ  or  going  to  a
higher Org