PAY OF CLERKS.
CASUAL EMPLOYEES OF CITY COUNCIL. A complaint that the wages paid to casual clerks by the City Council had been reduced from £4 10s to £4 a week was made at last night's Council meeting by Cr. A. E. Armstrong. Cr. E. H. Andrews (chairman of the Finance Committee) replied that the wages had been increased last year and tho original wage reverted to this year. Each casual, he said, made a good deal out of overtime and few of them secured less than £6 9s a week. Cr. Armstrong: They are paid below the award rates. Cr. Andrews: There are no award rates. It was only during the life of the last Council that the wage was £4 10s. They work only seven hours a day, plus overtime. Some do quite well out of it and they are all well satisfied as far as I know. I suppose that if they thought there was a possibility of getting an extra ten shillings They would naturally try for it.
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20034, 16 September 1930, Page 10
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172PAY OF CLERKS. Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20034, 16 September 1930, Page 10
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