asked the Minister for the Environment the weekly maximum adjusted pay of (a) road overseers and (b) supervisory overseers employed by Westmeath County Council at 30 June, 1977 and at each date on which changes occurred since then.
366.
Written Answers. - Road Overseers' Pay.
365.
asked the Minister for the Environement the weekly maximum adjusted pay of (a) road overseers and (b) supervisory overseers employed by Meath County Council at 30 June, 1977 and at each date on which changes occurred since then.
With the permission of the Ceann Comhairle, I propose to take Questions Nos. 365 and 366 together.
Statistics of wage and salary rates are not normally kept by my Department in respect of grades, such as supervisory overseers, which are not national or general grades. In so far as the grade of county council road overseer (other than road overseers employed by Dublin County Council) is concerned, a national pay scale has applied with effect from 1 July 1977. Since that date the maximum of that wage scale has been as follows:—
Maximum of Road Overseers' National Scale
|
£ |
|
|
1 July 1977 |
65.00 |
|
1 November 1977 |
67.63 |
|
1 March 1979 |
73.04 |
|
1 March 1979 |
74.50 |
|
1 June 1979 |
81.21 |
|
1 August 1979 |
85,01 |
|
1 October 1979 |
86.35 |
|
1 January 1980 |
91.50 |
|
1 March 1980 |
100.31 |
|
1 October 1980 |
109.33 |
The flat rates of pay applicable on 30 June 1977 to road overseers employed by Meath County Council and Westmeath County Council were £52.51 p.w. and £52.44 p.w. respectively.
367.
asked the Minister for the Environment if Meath County Council has submitted proposals to his Department to increase the pay of supervisory road overseers in accordance with the National Understanding, 1979; if so, the amount of weekly retrospective pay adjustments proposed and the operative date in each case; the proposed weekly wage as adjusted on the commencement of the first phase of the National Understanding 1980 indicating if any proposals have been made by the local authority which would apply earlier than 1 July 1979; the date on which the proposals were received in his Department; and the decision on the proposals.
As regards the first part of the question, on 21 January 1981, Meath County Council requested my sanction for the implementation of Labour Court recommendation No. 6174 which provided for increases in pay for six supervisory road overseers employed by the county council. As regards the second, third and fourth parts of the question, the council did not request sanction for quantified pay adjustments, for specified operative dates, or for the application of a specific weekly wage on the commencement of the second national understanding. As regards the fifth part, I understand that the terms of the Labour Court recommendation provide for pay adjustments from a date earlier than 1 July 1979.
Sanction for the implementation of the recommendation issued from my Department on 10 March.