asked the Minister for Fisheries and Forestry the revised weekly rates of pay for the principal categories of forest workers and machine operatives under the second phase of the National Understanding, the operative date and the adjustment involved in the form of a reply of 15 May 1979, with details of the forest bonus and the latest average national bonus earning per hour.
Written Answers. - Forestry Workers' Wages.
267.
The relevant pay rates, inclusive of increase of 7 per cent plus £2.40 per week as from 1 March 1980, are as follows:—
|
Machine Operators |
Rate of weekly pay from 1 March 1980 |
|
£ |
|
|
Low Loader |
80.15 |
|
Lorry (up to 3 tons) |
74.22 |
|
Lorry (3 to 6 tons) |
74.86 |
|
Lorry (6 to 7 tons) |
75.46 |
|
Land Rover |
73.65 |
|
Tractors (Wheeled) |
67.94 |
|
Tractors (Plough) |
70.66 |
|
Tractors (Dozer) |
72.90 |
|
Forest Workers: |
|
|
County Dublin |
65.08 |
|
Counties Kildare/Wicklow |
64.50 |
|
Rest of Country |
63.98 |
|
Bonus per hour: |
|
|
Existing (from 1 March 1980) |
37p?100 per cent |
|
Nat. average (1 March 1980) |
35p?98 per cent |