Pay Proposals Today
Page 28
If you've noticed an error in this article please click here to report it so we can fix it.
OUT today are the official proposals for increases in road haulage employees' pay, embodied in R.H.(81). This puts into detailed terms the recommended rise of 6 per cent in Grade 1 pay, with London differential maintained, as agreed by the Wages Council on January 29.
March 12 is the closing date for receipt of objections to the proposals.
Average Earnings—£18
EARNINGS in the road haulage I—, industry went up by 15s. a week over a period of six months last year. According to a survey conducted by the Ministry of Labour in the second pay week of October, 1964, average earnings in road haulage contracting (except British Road Services) were £18 is. 2d. This was just Is. below the average for all adult men covered by the inquiry.
The figure, published in the Ministry of Labour Gazette yesterday (Thursday), represents actual earnings inclusive of payments for overtime, night work and other special additions, and includes skilled and unskilled workers. To earn that total they had to work an average of 56.6 hours a week, compared with only 47.7 hours for industry at large. The hours worked are, in fact, the longest for any industrial group covered by the survey.
When the previous inquiry was conducted in April last year, average earnings in road haulage were only £17 6s. 2d.. which was 6s. 3d, below the national average at that time. The number of hours worked then was practically the same (56.4), so that the higher pay came almost entirely from higher hourly rates.