Hereafter it is policy that anyone wishing to work in an official Scientology Organization either must be an HDG or above or be recruited as follows:
1. Sign a 2 1/2 year contract.
2. Be put on full time training on the Dianetic Auditor Course at org expense.
3. If and when he meets the exact requirements of an HDC for groups or HDG for orgs and receives his certificate he is placed on staff.
4. Any training thereafter (Staff Status II being his next action) as an auditor or staff member is done part time while on post without charge.
5. Any auditing he receives thereafter up to Grade IV is at 50% full rates or is done outside the org by a fellow staff member who is fully qualified, any necessary Reviews being at half charge and all C/S being done free of charge by the org.
6. The Grades V and VA being at 50% discount, the staff member bearing all travel and living expenses himself if received at a distant place, the staff member being off payroll for the time absent from post.
7. All Advanced Org grades being obtainable from AOs for a 50% reduction of fee paid in cash on enrollment at the AO, providing the EC of his org signs a letter stating he is a contracted staff member to that org, all travel and living expenses being paid personally by the staff member and being off payroll during his absence.
8. Class VI and Class VIII, PRO and HGC and Course Supervisor training to be at org expense at 50% fee, living and travel expenses also paid by org but only on a letter from the Org's EC and evidence of a new 5 year contract being signed to that org to begin on resumption of post at the org. Any unfinished portion of the 2 1/2 year contract is cancelled but in general practice Class VI and VIII training should be extended at org expense only to those who were actual and highly valuable org auditors for a reasonable period of time.
The Sea Org's SHs and AOs will cooperate by remitting 50% of fees as above and under the above conditions.
(SO members eventually receive all their grades, classes and courses free of charge, as they are not on salary. The SO requires a person to be HDC or above or on enrollment and the signing of the SO contract is followed at once by full time training to HDG at full SO expense after which the person receives his sea training and Staff Status II, etc. on a part time basis.)
The requirements of HDC or HDG MUST be upheld and are very explicit. Anyone receiving a certificate in Standard Dianetics must:
If the potential org staff member fails on either of the two above accounts or if they are in question, he is not given any certificate and his contract is cancelled. This must occur within one month of his enrollment on course.
It is the specific intention of this Policy Letter to
A. Technically train new staff members in Dianetics and Course Supervision before permitting even clerical or other posts;
B. To have persons on staff who can audit and therefore help others;
C. To have persons on staffs who are good ethics cases since persons who are not able to audit and who do not get good case gain are too often found to be bad ethics risks or who have to be preclears too long. (Org personnel and admin upsets stem only from such cases as do not meet 1 and 2 Dianetic requirements above.)
D. To have orgs that are critical of poor org training and org processing standards at any class or grade and can detect such flaws at once even in their lowest ranks.
E. To have high morale, efficient and effective orgs and official activities.
If a person who is already an HDC applies to become an org staff member he is given his HDG and any Scientology grade he can cover in 3 weeks at org expense.
If a person who is applying is of a higher class he is still given a month of free training at org expense.
In the case of a Class VI, (although the contract must be for 5 years) he is sent for his Class VIII as the first action.
In the case of a Class IV applying he is given a Standard Dianetics Course (to HDG) if he does not have it and if he also has this (HDG) and Class IV he may be given his Class VI at org expense (on a 5 year contract) if feasible for the org.
Foundations exist to keep an area calm and to prevent a no-auditing situation for many.
They also exist to service day org staff.
It is fatal not to have a Foundation.
The Contract of a Foundation is valid only if the staff member works evenings and weekends which is equivalent to a full time Day post in hours.
This being true, then all the above conditions apply to Foundation staff procurement. The times in training are the same if the student goes both evening and weekend.
Part time Foundation staff (only evenings or only weekends) may not have these conditions.
[See also pages 91 and 93 in this Volume and HCO P/Ls 29 June 1971, Issue IV, Org Personnel Recruitment Requirements Eased, and 21 July 1972, Issue IV, Staff Qualification Requirements for Hiring Cancelled, in the Year Books, for changes in requirements.]