§ MR. BRADLAUGH (Northampton)asked the Postmaster General, Whether employés doing duty on Sunday in the sorting departments of the General Post Office receive any special rate or extra pay; whether some extra allowance was directed to be paid for such Sunday service by Treasury Minute of April, 1881; whether Memorials have been received by him from sorters of long service on this subject; and, whether any, and what, answer has been given to the Memorialists?
§ THE POSTMASTER GENEEAL (Mr. RAIKES) (Cambridge University)In reply to the hon. Member, I have to state that on Sunday officers employed in the sorting office of the General Post Office receive an exceptional rate of pay, a rate much higher than that which they receive on other days. Memorials have been received from the sorters, asking that this exceptional rate may be made still higher, and I am now in communication with the Treasury on the subject. There is no Treasury Minute of 1881, or, so far as I am aware, of any other date that deals with the question.