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Municipal Bonus Agreed

26th November 1965
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From our Industrial Correspondent I T took further assistance from Ministry of Labour conciliation officers to overcome the snags (reported in last week's issue) which prevented agreement on the implementation of a 40-hour week and a new bonus scheme for more than 72,000 municipal busmen. But agreement on both points was eventually reached last week by the National Joint Industrial Council for the Road Passenger Industry, after which only ratification by a delegate conference of the men was outstanding. And with a unanimous recommendation from the union negotiators in favour of acceptance this was expected to be only a formality.

Under the settlement the 40-hour week will come into force at the end of the year and the bonus scheme was due to start from last Monday. It provides for a bonus payment of 10s. a week for every man and woman with six months' service; for 12s. 6d. after one year; 20s. after five years; 25s. after 10 years; and 30s. after 20 years. But under a penalty clause the bonus can be forfeited if a man is absent "through unofficial strikes or other unauthorized reasons ". There is provision for appeal against such penalties to the National Joint Industrial Council sitting under an independent chairman. A man would, however, need union approval before an appeal could be made.

Aid. Norman Harris, chairman of the National Federation of Municipal Passenger Transport Employers, described the clause after the meeting as "a completely new conception in industrial relations ".


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