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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1165, 28 June 1911, Page 7

The new reclassification scheme for the employees in the Victorian railway service lias been issued. The alterations embody an increase of Gd. a day to men in labouring avocations, which will bring their wago to 7s. Gd. a day after two years' service, as well as an increase of tho. maximum classification of the lowest class of clerk from <£120 to .C 135 a year, reached after soven years' service, and of the wage of lads in different avocations, and of apprentices. Tho alterations in the classification will involve an additional expenditure of approximately ,£96,000, of which about 80 per cent will benefit the daily-paid employees, whilst in _ addition the practices regarding tho conditions of employment generally have been liberalised. These concessions will involve an additional expenditure of approximately ■£19,000 per annum, so that the total cost of the new regulation may be set down at about ,£115,000 per annum.