BETTER CONDITIONS

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 125, 20 February 1941, Page 6

BETTER CONDITIONS

Trainees In St. Helen’s Hospitals

Improxemeiits in the conditions for trainees in Si. Helen's hospitals were announced yesterday by the Miuistet of Health. Mr. Nordmeyer. lie said that a> from April I the allowance of a year now paid would be iuorcaM’d in Ibe case <d’ luiduilei.' trainees to ami 1,1 maternity nurse trainees, to £52 a year. 'file present system wherein StHelen's Hospital nurses were required to provide their own uniforms would cease, and overalls (which would remain the property of the department), would be supplied for use during trainin'* In addition, each trainee would be given material for two dresses for each six months of her training The present provision of one week’s sick leave on full pay in respect of .'.aeli six mouths' service was most inadequate. said the Minister. Ibis Mould he replaced by the scale applicable to permanent employees of the Public Service: but in the ease of illness attributable to conditions under which the irainee was working. or where le.'ivc was necessitated by injuries received in the course ol the trainee's employnient. special provision nftglit be made if the Public Service Commissioner approved.