§ 44. Mr. Silvesterasked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity how many municipal bus undertakings signed pay agreements with their employees based on the model agreement approved by her Department in August 1968; how many workers were covered by such agreements; and what was the increase in pay that they received.
§ Mr. Harold WalkerThirty-five undertakings signed agreements based on the model worked out by the employers' Federation. In their original form most of these agreements required clearance by the industry's National Joint Industrial Council. This was not forthcoming. Some were amended and resubmitted to my Department. As a result 19 agreements covering some 7,000 workers were implemented. They provided for an increase of 10s. per week in the basic rate, with effect from December, 1967, and a bonus of 10s. per week for one-man operation with effect from June 1968 to be consolidated into the basic rate from January 1969.