POWER BOARDS’ OFFICERS

Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28258, 22 April 1957, Page 17

POWER BOARDS’ OFFICERS

Salary Increases Up To £43

Salary increases ranging from £5 to £43 a year are provided for in a new award for electric power board officers. The maximum increase is for eleventh-year employees who will now receive £639. First year employees receive £235 (an increase of £5), and fourteenth-year employees at the top of the scale £714, which is an increase of £29. Officers with School Certificate will start at the third year of the scale instead of the second year and those with University Entrance qualification at the fourth year instead of the third. Women’s pay is to be increased from £4 to £25 a year. First-year employees will receive £225 and ninth-year employees at the top of the scale, £49s—an increase of £25. Women with School Certificate or junior typing qualification will start work with salary at the third year of the scale and those with University Entrance or senior typing examination at the fourth year. Each classification has been given seniority of an extra year. Pay rates under the award are to be subject to the 18 per cent. Economic Stabilisation Regulations increase on men’s wages up to £l3 a week, on women’s up to £9 15s a week, and on the wages of persons up to 21 years old under £7 10s. The award has been made retrospective to November 19, 1956, and is to continue in force until April 30, 1958. Its conditions embody terms of settlement arrived at by assessors in Conciliation Council.