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Contracts, Pay and Conditions
First contract, 1967, Hants & Dorset.
Second contract, 1972 Hants & Dorset / Wilts & Dorset.
 
I joined Hants & Dorset in 1967.
The first contract shows:
1. Your employment began on -2 OCT 1967
2. Your pay is at the rates agreed between the Company and the National Union of Raiwaymen. A copy of these rates and subsequent variations thereto can be seen in the Office of the premises at which you are employed. You are paid weekly.
3. Your normal hours of work are governed by the Agreement between the Company and the National Union of Railwaymen and are in accordance with the schedule of duties posted and amended from time to time at the Depot to which you are attached.
4. Your entitlement to holidays and holidays with pay is defined in the Agreement between the Company and the National Union of Railwaymen.
5. Wages will not be paid during any absence from work caused by sickness or injury.
6. The Company does not provide a Pension Scheme.
7. You are entitled to receive one week's notice of termination of employment increasing to two weeks after two year's service and to four weeks after five year's service. You are required to give the Company one week's notice of termination.
8. Your employment is also subject to your observance of the Company's rules and regulations and any future amendment or addition thereto.
9. Reference in this statement to the Agreement between the Company and the National Union of Railwaymen means the Agreement dated 8th August 1960 and any subsequent amendment or addition thereto.
D. G. Finley, Secretary.
In 1972, following the formal amalgamation with Wilts & Dorset (the two companies had been under joint management since 1962) a new version was issued.
It includes a statement required by the Industrial Relations Act 1971 saying that membership of a trade union is optional but adds a note that membership of the NUR is "wholly acceptable to the Company".
NUR book, 1970.
This book, issued by the National Union of Railwaymen (NUR) sets out the rates of pay and conditions of service agreed with the company.
It shows the following rates for platform staff (in 1970):
    £ s d       s d      
Drivers   13 14 10   per week   6 10.450   per hour  
Conductors   13 7 1   per week   6 8.125   per hour  
At this time, drivers of one-man buses received an extra fifteen shillings per week. Wages were based on a 40 hour, 6 day week.
The book includes details of the complex agreement on working hours, breaks, rest days and much more.
 
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