asked the Taoiseach the average percentage wage or salary increase paid or granted to (a) industrial workers, (b) farm labourers, and (c) transport workers from 1st April 1960 to the present day.
Written Answers. - Workers' Wages and Salary Increases.
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(a) Information as to the earnings of workers in transportable goods industries for the fourth quarter of 1961 is not yet available. However, it is possible to state that between the March quarter of 1960 and the September quarter of 1961 the index of average weekly earnings of industrial workers employed in transportable goods industries rose by 9.3 per cent.
(b) The minimum rates at present payable to agricultural workers are those prescribed under the Agricultural Wages (Minimum Rates) Order, 1961, which came into operation on 30th October 1961. The minimum weekly rates prescribed under this Order for males aged 20 years and over represent an average increase of 8.4 per cent on the corresponding weekly rates prescribed in the Order which came into operation on 28th March 1960.
(c) The index of hourly rates of wages of workers in Transport in the Dublin District is provisionally estimated to have risen by 10.4 per cent between the beginning of 1960 and the beginning of 1962.