HOSPITAL BOARD WORKERS’ PAY

Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27989, 8 June 1956, Page 10

HOSPITAL BOARD WORKERS’ PAY

Minister Announces Increases

ANNUAL COST OF £300,000

(New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, June 7.

Hospital board employees will receive salary increases totalling more than £300.000 a year. The Minister of Health (Mr J. R. Hanan), announced in Auckland to-night that the new rates, which will te retrospective to April 1, are now being calculated. Mr Hanan said the adjustments were being made in fulfilment of an undertaking given by the Prime Minister (Mr Holland) when he recently announced increases for the Public Service generally.

The hospital increases would apply to all staffs whose salaries came under the Hospital Employment Regulations, said Mr Hanan. In calculating the new rates, the Health Department was taking the opportunity to incorporate, where applicable, the recommendations of meetings of the various salaries advisory committees last December.

Where salaries were determined by grading, the new scales would be promulgated, and the salaries of individuals would be left to the grading committee, he said.

Calculation of the new rates was a considerable undertaking, and would take some time to complete, said Mr Hanan. AH the Hospital Employment Regulations would have to be reprinted. but the new rates would be released to hospital boards as soon as they were available, with authority to pay them in expectation of the amended regulations.