No "30" Pay Settlement: £700 Fines
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L'AILURE to settle methods of paying . drivers following the abolition of the 20 m.p.h. limit was partly responsible for a series of " hours and records " offences by S. Grimshaw and Son, Ltd., Selby, Yorks, and 19 of their drivers, it was stated before Selby magistrates en Monday. The total of fines imposed was more than £700, the company paying £394.
Mr. 'Stanley Sykes, manager of the company, was alleged to have told an official that the drivers' log-sheet entries, on which they were paid, bore no relation to actual hours Worked. Since the speed limit was raised, men could do more work a day. In the absence of a newpay agreement, the company continued to remunerate drivers on the basis of an average of 16 m.p.h.
Drivers submitted lOg sheets appropriately and added time for loading and unloading. Total hours booked were fictitious, said Mr. E. Wurzal, prosecuting. Sometimes drivers made out their sheets a week late.
Mr. Gilbert Gray, defending, said that the company had no way of knowing the hours worked by lorry drivers. The Transport and General Workers' Union objected to the installation of journey recorders in the vehicles.