Hallett urged the judicial appointments commission (JAC) to exploit the so-called "tipping point" or equal merits provision more frequently, particularly in relation to appointing the senior judiciary.
Greater use should be made by the Judicial Appointments Commission (JAC) of the "tipping point" or equal merits provision in appointing the senior judiciary outside the supreme court.
"We have introduced the equal merit provision, which allows diversity to be taken into account for appointments when two applicants are of equal merit; extended salaried part time working to make it easier to balance home and work life; and introduced a new statutory duty for the lord chancellor and lord chief justice to encourage judicial diversity.
Proposition C, which will allow the city manager to remove his appointees without regard to the merit provision in the Charter, was approved, with 3,577 or 64.7% voting yes and 1,953 or 35.3% voting no.
It also suggests that the MoJ should consider introducing "equal merit" provisions for recruiting magistrates to boost diversity – which would allow those from less well-represented backgrounds to be chosen if candidates are of otherwise equal merit.
Randi Weingarten, president of the United Federation of Teachers, said she would consider a merit pay provision but only in a contract that included a general wage increase at least equal to inflation.
"Archaeological material and works of ancient art for which provenance information is incomplete or unobtainable may deserve to be publicly displayed, conserved, studied, and published because of their rarity, historical importance and aesthetic merit," that provision states.
Merit pay provisions encourage many employees to work harder, but these provisions can create resentment when one group of employees receives more than another.
Such merit-pay provisions do encourage many employees to work harder, labor experts say.
In his budget proposals yesterday, he called for merit-pay provisions in all city contracts, including the teachers' contract.
That effort collapsed, partly because teachers' unions and other educator groups opposed an effort to incorporate merit pay provisions into a rewritten law.
