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Greymouth Evening Star, 16 December 1916, Page 8

I A Si £ Fi m Makes a Speml feature cl Its Trea insat Towards Its Employees. 4 We had a visit this week from Mr. W 'i. iv in Advertising Manager

for the Vacuum Oil Company. Pro- ■ prietary Limited. In the coarse of c t i n !u M Ma c • ear to its the magnitude of the company and the policy of its Directors. The Vacuum ’Oil'Company Proprie-. tary Limited gives employment to over one thousand Australian or British subjects, amt the fine example shown by this company in the manner in which it takes care of its employees is worthy of emulation. For example, over 10 per cent, of its staff have already enlisted, and the company is either paying their full salaries or the difference between the salary that the employee is receiving from, the Government and the salary that he drew from the company. Each employee who has enlisted has the promise "that his position will be reedy for him again upomhis return. The policy of the Vacuum Oil Company Proprietary Limited is one of co-operation—of giving fair and just treatment to its workers. It has various educational methods, such as training schools, which certain members attend nightly, as well as lectures •given by the managers of technical, scientific and educational departments. Every inducement in’ education, promotion and encouragement is given so that employees will remain in the company's ■ service. The democratic feeling that the office boy has an opportunity of some day becoming the managing director is the, spirit that prevails throughout the organization, as proved by the fact that one of the E resent directors started as an office oy in Brisbane some years ago. In addition to these advantages, the company has a pension scheme by which any employee who has been in the service Vfor twenty years, and reaches the age of sixty, may retire, drawing a pension that does not cost him a single penny. Again, all employees are covered by an insurance policy, that in the event of death after_ five years’ service, the dependants, receive payments in accordance with the length of service of the employee. This is also without cost. The Vacuum Oil Company Proprietary Limited is one of the biggest companies operating in Australasia, having large manufacturing works at Sydney, Melbourne, 'and Fremantle, besides offices and warehouses in twenty-five centres' in Australasia. The, products marketed by the company■ are high-grade American Kero- , seneS, Motor Spirit, Spraying Oil for •Orchards, Kerosene Stoves and Heaters, and Lubricating Oils. All the modern, methods of keeping . the staff ~ and on the chief topics of the day have been .well catered for by the company’s] two papers—“ The Vacuum.-He* • .View”, and the '‘Gargoyle Bulletin," ( with ■ which 'many. oL ,odt • reader» art ' } ■ familiar. , . ' ■