New Four-point Claim for Haulage Workers
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BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
IMPROVEMENTS in working conditions which will have an effect on A wages will be sought by the employees' side at a meeting of the Road Haulage Wages Council next Thursday. The unions are asking for timeand-a-quarter to be paid for the first three hours after 44 hours, instead of for the first six hours. Time-and-a-half would then be payable after three hours.
Another demand is that a man who works on a customary holiday should be given a day off in lieu with pay, as well as double pay for working on the holiday. It is proposed that night work should start at 7 p.m., instead of 9 p.m. An extra 8d. an hour would be payable for work between 7 p.m. and 6 a.m.
The workers' side also seeks to delete from R.H.(66) any reference to workers other than regular workers. The significance of this demand is at present obscure. Paragraph 7 of R.H.(66) lays down the wages payable to non-regular workers. Its provisions were introduced many years ago, when casual labour was more common than it is today. The effect of deleting it might be that employers would have to engage a man by the week, or not at all.