HOSPITAL BOARD EMPLOYEES

Evening Star, Issue 26102, 16 May 1947, Page 7

HOSPITAL BOARD EMPLOYEES

ADVISORY COMMITTEES TO REVIEW WORK CONDITIONS AND WAGES

(P.A.) WELLINGTON, May 15 The appointment of advisory committees on the subject oi conditions of employment, rates of remuneration, and other questions concerning hospital board employees who are not covered by awards, industrial agreements, or apprenticeship orders, are provided for in regulations gazetted to-night. The Minister of Health, Mr Nordmeyer, said the main class of employee affected would be nurses, but medical officers and certain clerical officers outside the awards would also have their conditions of employment prescribed by regulations in due course. The present regulations authorise the appointment of advisory committees, consisting of up to five persons who are employees of hospital boards, and a similar number, at least half of whom are members of hospital boards and the remainder officers of the Public Service. Eaeh committee is to have a chairman, who is not a member or employee of a hospital board or an officer of the Department of Health. Special committees may he appointed to advise on matters actually affecting particular classes of employees,_ such as nurses and medical officers, while there is to be a general committee to advise on matters affecting all, or substantially all, classes of employees, and to review and co-ordinate the recommendations of special committees. The Hospital Hoards’ Association of New Zealand has been invited to submit a nan el of names for appointment, and the New Zealand Registered Nurses’ Association has also been asked to submit nominations for the appointment of nurse representatives. Steps are being taken to select renresenfntives of nH'“r classes of employees.