SUNDAY PAY

Waikato Times, Volume 194, Issue 22248, 18 January 1944, Page 4

SUNDAY PAY

ROAD SERVICES A.S.R.S. SUPFORTS MEMBERS

(By Teluaranh. —rrrss Association) WELLINGTON, Tuesday The council of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants has considered the bus drivers’ case and has issued the following statement: “The executive council has always advocated payment of double rates lor Sunday work on the grounds that the Sunday rests should not be interfered with ;f it is at all possible to avoid it. In conformity with this recognised policy we have for years past endeavoured to prevail upon Governments and the Railway Department to pay double rates . for Sunday duty to members of our road motor services branch. “Because of this and in order to keen Sunday work for our members down to an absolute minimum, we support the request of our bus drivers to be brought into line with the rest of the service and allowed double pay for Sunday duty. As, however, the passenger transport drivers* award, taken by the Railway Department as tine basis on which the wages of our motor service branch members are determined, does not provide for double pav for Sunday duty, and as the added difficulty of the. stabilisation regulations still exists, negotiations were still proceeding on behalf of our bus drivers when they decided not to work on Sundays until the question of double pay was settled. “While there may be differences of opinion with regard to the method adopted by bus drivers, it must be obvious that the executive council cannot depart from its declared policy or repudiate the principle already established in this matter.”