§ Mr. JOYNSON-HICKSasked the Postmaster-General what are the terms regarding rates of pay, time for meals, sick pay, and holidays in the case of temporary clerical assistants taken on during the War, as compared to the regular members of the Post Office staff doing similar work?
§ Mr. HOBHOUSEThe rates of pay of adult temporary clerks, whether male or female, employed by the Post Office during the present emergency range from 18s. to 40s. a week according to the nature of the work performed. It is hardly practicable to make any useful comparison with the pay of regular members of the Post Office clerical staff, whose wages vary widely according to the length of their service and the classes on which they are borne. Generally speaking, temporary clerical officers are allowed the same time for meals as the regular members of the clerical staffs of the offices at which they are employed. After twelve months' service temporary clerical officers are granted twelve 1167W working days' annual leave, compared with periods varying from fourteen to twenty-seven days granted to established clerical officers. They are not eligible for sick pay, but are insured under the National Health Insurance Acts.