COUNTY CLERKS’ SALARIES

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19777, 3 November 1938, Page 11

COUNTY CLERKS’ SALARIES

s EMPLOYERS’ PROTEST

CLAIMS FOR WORKERS

(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day

Strong exception was taken by Mr. W. Marshall, chairman of the Ohinemuri County Council, in the Conciliation Council proceedings to the contention, of the employees’ assessor that the salaries of the county clerical workers should be on the same basis as in the civil service as far as £305, class seven.

When the employees’ assessor suggested that the council might as well abandon the proceedings and go to the Arbitration Court, Mr. Marshall interjected: “It is travesty of conciliation that assessors from the city should hold up a county council employees’ dispute.” He was referring to the fact ’that five of the six employees’ assessors were fro'm Wellington and Auckland. If the dispute was sent to the court in that manner, he was going to ask the counties’ representative to explain the reason and further, through the Counties’ Association to ask the Government for an amendment to the Industrial, Conciliation and Arbitration Act to make it compulsory that employees’ assessors be chosen from the workers affected. It was pointed out that there was no county council officers’ union and that they were included in the Local Body Officers’ Union. The employers offered an amended salary scale rising to £2BO in the eighth year, then £290, £3OO and £312 in the eleventh year.

Exemption from the hours of work clause was asked for employees receiving in excess of £6 a week. Provision is to be made for the payment of bonuses for examination successes.