RAILWAY OFICERS’ PAY.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3516, 30 June 1920, Page 5

RAILWAY OFICERS’ PAY.

INCREASED BONUSES. WELLINGTON, Jane 2‘i. The Goiftiliation Committee appointed to consider matters in dispute between the railways officers and the Department concluded its sittings yesterday. It recommends the following:— That the bonus , now paid to members ■of the first division be cancelled as on and after April 1, 192, and a bonus at the rate of £2O per annum be granted to each member of grade 8 (cadets) j Jhat a bonus at the rate of £5,0 per annum be granted for grades 2 to 7 inclusive, and to captains, mates, and engineers of the Lake Wakatipu service as on and after April 1, 1920; that the bonus recommended for grades 2 to 7 be taken into consideration in respect to salaries of members of grade lj lodging allowances for sub-grades 1, 2 and 3be £4O, £SO and £2O respectively; married members’ minimum rate of pay to be £lB7 10/ per annum; casual clerks to be eligible for advance’s io the minimum rate of pay provide for grade 7; hours of duty to be worked by officers at centres to be specified. the latter being fixed at 38 hours per week, and at other places the hours be 48 per week with time off for work in excess of that period, seven hours to constitute an ‘‘all night” shift. Special provision is recommended governing Sunday work, and the scale of Sunday pay ranges from 4/ an hour for officers in receipt of over £270 per annum to 3/3 for those getting not more than £lO5, the bonus to be considered in assessing the rates of pay. Annual leave is to be brought into uniform! be Service provisions, and the limitation of 42 days’ accumulation is to be cancelled, the leave rota to be cancelled for officers. Among other recommendations one is made for increased travelling advances and for reduction of time necessary for a member to serve in any grade to qualify for the maximum superannuation retiring allowance in respect to such grade. Other recommendations of minor importance were also made.