asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs whether he will review the position of casual labourers in his Department with the object of paying them the increase of 11/- already being paid to Post Office labourers.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Post Office Labourers' Wages.
Post Office labourers, or quasi permanent labourers, as they are called in the Department, are part of the regular staff and their wages are regulated by Civil Service standards.
Casual labourers are taken on for short periods only, usually for work in the area where they reside, and are paid the current local rate for unskilled general labourers. They are not, of course, eligible for Civil Service increases, but their wage rates naturally keep in step with the general level of labourers' wages. The rate for casuals in Dublin City, for example, was increased by 3d. an hour as from 1/7/48 and in Dublin County by 2½d. an hour as from the same date.