REVISIONS MADE TO POLICY

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22467, 30 July 1938, Page 6

REVISIONS MADE TO POLICY

NEW CITY COUNCIL IN , DUNEDIN ! CONDITIONS OF SICK FAY j TO BE ALTERED j (THE I'BESS Special Servlce.l 1 DUNEDIN, July 29. i The policy of the last City Council ‘ n Dunedin, on which there was a . iredominance of Labour members, has < ieen changed in several directions aleady by the present council, and furher modifications are now forchadowed. An investigation of the xisting sick pay arrangements to ouncif employees has been earned ut by the finance committee, and -t meeting on Monday night it will ecommend the discontinuance of the resent scheme of two-thirds pay to 11 employees over an unlimited period nd the adoption of amended proosals providing for payment during ckness at half rates, the allowance

■ to continue for a maximum periodol three months in any one year. The present arrangements which provide for payment of two-thirds pay to ah employees, including subsidised workers, for an unlimited period, cost the council last year a total of £4090. he finance committee will - also recommend on Monday night that the council’s housing scheme should be carried on to the extent of loaq authorisations already authorised. As advice has been received from the Local Government Loans Board that the council’s application for sanction tc raise a third loan of £IOO,OOO tor housing purposes has been approved. The recommendation is tantamount to a limitation of further expenditure to that sum. , „ The committee also recommends the revision of the scheme to provide among other things for fixing the minimum deposit by any borrower, at 7 per cent, of the total, and the limiting of the advance in any case to £1250.