§ Mr. WATTasked whether the clerical assistants in the telephone branch of the post office at Glasgow and taken over from the corporation in 1906, are being paid their annual increment, called corporation increment, when it becomes due, or whether it is being allowed to drop into arrears of six to eight months; and, if the latter, why is it not paid when due?
§ Mr. HERBERT SAMUELI will make inquiry and communicate with the hon. Member on the subject.
§ Mr. WATTasked the Postmaster-General whether assistants of the telephone branch
of the Post Office in Glasgow, and taken over from the corporation in 1906, are being rejected for the establishment by the Civil Service Commissioners on medical grounds, even though their medical record for years is good, showing few absences; and if he will say whether the same principle is being adopted with those assistants to be taken over from the National Telephone Company?
§ Mr. HERBERT SAMUELIt is the fact that certain members of the telephone staff of the Glasgow Corporation who were taken over by the Post Office in 1906 have been rejected by the Civil Service Commissioners on medical grounds for appointment as established officers. They are, however, being retained in the service of the Post Office under conditions distinctly superior to those under which they served while employed by the Coroporation. The 2219W proposals in regard to the staff to be taken over from the National Telephone Company will be embodied in a Bill which I hope soon to be able to introduce.