§ Mr. WATTasked the Postmaster-General whether, on the transfer of the Glasgow Corporation telephones to the Post Office, an assurance was given to. the staff that their conditions of employment would not be less favourable than those enjoyed under the corporation; whether it was the practice of the corporation to give an annual increment of £5 every 1st of June to clerks of a, certain class; whether this increment since the transfer has been paid with reluctance and in arrears by his Department; and whether his Department intends fulfilling the original assurance or departing from it altogether?
§ Mr. HERBERT SAMUELThe assurance was given, and there is no intention of departing from it. As I informed the hon. Member on the 11th April last the great majority of the officers in question have received established appointments, and the increments of their class are being paid as they accrue. Two of the three officers whose cases were then under consideration have since been classed as unestablished, with a scale of pay and conditions of employment which, taken together, are not less favourable than those they enjoyed under the corporation. The case of the third of these officers, who refused an established appointment, is still engaging my attention.