COUNTY EMPLOYEES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21184, 3 November 1938, Page 4

COUNTY EMPLOYEES

CONCILIATION PROCEEDINGS By Telegrapn Press Association WELLINGTON. November 2 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 salaries of county clerical workers should be on the same basis as in the Civil Service as far as £305, which is provided for class seven. When the Employees’ Assessor suggested the Council might as well abandon proceedings and go to the Arbitration Court Mr Marshall interjected that it was a travesty of conciliation that assessors from the city should hold up a county council employees dispute. Mr Marshall was referring to the fact that five or six of the employees’ assessors were from Wellington and Auckland. If the dispute was sent to the Arbitration Court in that manner he was going to ask the counties’ representative to explain the reason, and further through the Counties’ Association ask the Government for an amendment to the Industrial Court of Arbitration to make it compulsory that employees’ assessors should be chosen from the workers affected. It was pointed out that there was no county council officers’ union, and they were included in the Local Body Officers’ Union. The employers offered to amend the salary scale rising to £2BO in the eighth year, then £290, £3OO and £312 in the eleventh year. Exemptions 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.