P.S.I.S.
Sir, — The other evening I was discussing working conditions with some friends of mine who are employed in the shop of the Public Service Investment Society. It appears that the staff are members of the Public Service Association yet are employed under i the shop assistants award, which apparently gives them working conditions and wages inferior to those of most public servants. For instance, I personally cannot see how an association which for long has pressed for equal pay for women workers can employ its own female shop staff at lower rates than men. Apparently there are many other aspects in their terms of employment which do not measure up to what the P.S.A preaches. I feel that the Investment Society should have a look at this situation. These people are not normal retail shop assistants but are in fact very overworked servants of a society which can well afford to pay its own staff the sort of rates that it is always fighting to obtain from the State. — Yours, etc., CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME.
March 17, 1972. [Mr E. A. McNicholl, Christchurch branch manager of the Public Service Investment Society, Ltd, advises that the society has no comment to make on this matter.]
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32873, 23 March 1972, Page 12
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