OVERTIME.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 624, 29 September 1909, Page 4

OVERTIME.

: FOR • POST ■ AND TELEGRAPH- OFFICERS. :' Tho now/'reg'ulatibns;' regarding -, payment ...ol officers in the. Post ami.Tolegraph Department were miide available yesterday.'; As. tho amended' regulations; .affect: a', largo body of _ tho-Civil Servicbj AvO~giTO them in extenso'-as follow.-.-:-;;, -J - regulations, "ovortime". means tlii'titn'o >W' (iffioinl or departmental • iddtyilis perfth'mod ibiitside' the; regular- hours duty; "Spnday" inctudes Good , Friday , f-rj... ' ■ ' ~: : (1.) Payment! foK,o/ertiffie, , .when imado, shall bo niade' at .the '-following 'rates:— offi-cers-drawing ..salaries, exceeding-' .£250, 2s,': 6d.. ' )per"; hour.j/oßcers "drawing /salaries', exceeding vfi2oo and not exceeding je250,-25.; officers draw-, salaries: exceeding, vfilOO,.and, not ..exceeding iC2OO, Is;, Cd. ;,;cadets,..'and "cadettes, Is.; other,, f oDficers drawn'g salaries not: exceeding I li/j telegraph messcngers^ed..'/;-.y S, r ' .-. j(2.) Payment shaliyie ,a rate and' a ; ■half - for overtime'' at all: hours on: Sundays«for ;ev6ry' pilTposo, 1 ■ add, on "week-days,, between 10. jpim';Hind 5 dim.' ohlyAwhin mails are. specially ; '*by;;'r;the : .' Secretary,"General Post Office;' tofbe:'.sor.ted. /But no payment/for, any, Viye.rtiaie'to, any, bfficer,.shall bo mado at a rato exceeding 3s. per hour.' / ,'-/'■ ; v(3;)-Notwithstanding.- anything , to'-., the,,-con-trary.' regulations, ,np person shall bo -paid mbre/thari-' lO's'./ for'.duty in; a telephono ; exc"hah'g'e.6h*a"Sdnday- or.'a.holiday.'- :-' '; 3. >'(!<) Subject :;to '. the - provisions of Regula-4'to';-7, : overtime shall bo paid for- as fol-i ;lows:—..-. ';' ■'/ ; ~ .:(a.);To officers called on to '.perform. either. ', postal duties in tbo sorting and delivery "i'of-'.mails r.;Pr «jn-operations,;: incidental '!';/ '. thereto, or'telegraph.'duties, at the fol--'lowing: post or . telegraph (offices .at which ~ there are regular shifts, or changes :of AV;;V?slaff— namelytho;pbst.'or, 'tho 'telegraph fy' v: .'offices' lit A Abirtoh, Auokland, Blenheim, •■'.:■/ Bluff/Christchurch, Dun-...v-;'Glsbohie; Gore,■ GreyinouthJ';;Hoki- , ' tika.V lnvercargill, ~ Masterton, ' Napier, i,: -Nelson, - New- Plymputh, Oamaru, Palm,r erstpji-. .Nortt\,. .Thames,. Timaru, \y»nga- :/<:; -, , nnii Wellington,/Wollihgton, South, ' 'arid : >' : / Westport:';. For Sunday ■ attendance;: for / .',. -attendance on departmental holidays;and. for attendance on other, days in excess of forty-eight hours weekly. • //(Ij.'LTo^oflioers'called on to perform telegraph ■J ;.'"j.fdtitieS;'for pross ( -ivo'rk*,'bli Sunday iat the; 'fd!lo\v-iug ofliccs'' —'"namely, Feildirig,. Hamilton, Hastings, Hawera, Kaikoura, . . Lyttelton, Martoii," 1 Ouohunga; Port 'v' /Chalmers,. Reef ton; Rotorua, and Waitara. • . ,■/- -./;.:.- ,'i<2 f ),iWhen prescribed as a and jTelcgfaph . departmental-'itorfdiiy- is .ri.it observed. as a 'holiday, jn. thoipublio offices 1 of tho Government throughout New Zealand- iuch' day ■ shall, for'tho ptirppses of; regulations, be deemed not-,to bo,a departmental holiday.: , , 4,-:-No..oveftinie; v allowhnco -shall be-'.mado'ito ofScers! of .either branch of tho service'! unless .- i tho,:extra. > .'exceeds twenty' minutes. - Attendance uj) 'to',fPrty-fii?b minutes shall count' as half an hour; over forty-five minutes as onp 'hour.,. K Js : o .overtime shall be payable, for midmghfcvcaj# pxs£'.Jittendance, or for , tho; at-' tendancoiSf any -staff . specially; appointed for the soipfeof mails ;botween; 10 p.m. and's a.m.- : 5- No- liaymcnt'for overtime, for'services other than; those: provided.: for .by these/ regulations' shaU'bo-iqlllowed -.except in' cases ,of extraordinary of exceptional attendance, when specially approved /of/by: the. Minister.'.' ./' / - ; 6.': No pbrso'n 'shall draw/any special allowanco fpr doing any kind of work for which ho is_paid as for work,done in overtime., , ■ 7. In. heu- of .payment for overtime" it shall /^-c^ n, *stor to allow an equi* Wf reduction <Sfvot-dinary, duty either immediately before or'immediately , after tho overtime ' duty, is performed, at, tho rate of an hour and a half, for every hour of overtime worked on.Sunday. and at the rato of an hour hour.at. times.. . ..