§ Mr. Skinnerasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list those industries that pay additional shift entitlements for working unsocial hours at a rate of time and one-fifth and above.
§ Mr. Dudley Smith166 industry agreements covering manual workers and concerned with shift working are listed in my Department's publication "Time Rates of Wages and Hours of Work", April, 1970 edition. Premium payments are shown to be based on a fixed supplement or on a percentage increase in the hourly rate. A copy of the publication is available in the Library of the House of Commons.
An analysis of 100 of the agreements by the N.B.P.I. in their report No. 161 "Hours of Work, Overtime and Shift-working" gives the following information about the range of premia paid for the various types of shiftworking.
with annual holiday entitlements of three, four and more weeks.
§ Mr. Dudley SmithDetails of the holiday entitlements of manual workers in different industries are published as 349W an appendix to the annual official volume "Time Rates of Wages and Hours of Work", and some and some analyses for a sample of employees in professional occupations are given in the publication "New Earnings Survey 1968". I am sending copies to the hon. Member.