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Conciliation Agreement in Devonand Cornwall
Page 95
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-Flours, Wages and Conditions of Employment Settled • AN agreement has now been reached
between the employers' and employees' representatives on the Devon and Cornwall Joint Conciliation Board. It provides that all regular drivers shalt be guaranteed 24 hours' work in any three consecutive days in a week, and that overtime shall be paid for any time worked over eight hours in any day in the three consecutive days and any time worked over 48 hours in a week.
The choice of the three consecutive days shall lie with the employer, and, subject to the provisions of the Road Traffic Act, the duties may start and finish at varying hours each day, and a man may rest on any day or days of the week, at the discretion of the employer. The provisions dealing with hours of work and overtime are to continue in operation for 12 months, when the matter is to be reviewed for the purpose of establishing a 48-hour guar
anteed week. • There is to be no differentiation of pay between trunk, long-distance or short-distance services confined within Devon and Cornwall. The driver and statutory attendant of any vehicle setting down or picking up goods in any place where wages are either higher or lower than in Devon andCornwall 'is to be paid the higher grade for the whole of that day. The principle of payment by xesults is approved.
The rates of overtinie .pay and the appropriate conditions" are in abeyance, pending further consideration by the National Board.
The wages scale agreed upon is based upon grading and carrying capacity. Grade 2 rates apply in Plymouth, and Grade 3 rates to all other parts of Devon and Cornwall. For drivers of vehicles not exceeding 2-ton carrying capacity the weekly scale is: Grade 2, 43s.; Grade 3, 45s.; 2-3i tons, 54s.
and 50s. respectively; 4-6 tons, 58s. 6d. and 54s, ad.; over 6 tons carrying capacity and not exceeding 14 tons gross laden weight, 61s. and 57s.; 14-22 tons, 66s. and 62s.
For statutory attendants, the scale for all vehicles is: Grade 2, 49s.; and Grade 3, 45s. For the first year., youths driving vehicles not exceeding 30-cwt. 'carrying capacity should" be paid 32s. fid. and 30s. respectively; in the second year 37s. 6d. and 35s., pay thereafter to be at the agreed adult rates.
Where approved facilities are not provided by the employer, subsistence allowances are to be paid to men re quired to sleep away from their home centres as follow : For a period of rest not exceeding 12 hours, 4s.; 12-18 hours, 7s. 6d..; and exceeding 18 hours, 10s. The basis of payment on Sundays has been deferred. Casual workers must be paid at the same rate as regular men.
A week's holiday is to be allowed, with pay, to all permanent employees who have been in continuous service for a year. If the service has been temporarily broken by the employer by reason of shortage of work or other causes outside the man's control, a holiday shall be allowed unless the absence from employment has exceeded a month.
The agreement comes into force as from January 1 next.