Dockyard Workers (Wages)

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Employment – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 7 December 1964.

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Photo of Mr Ernest Thornton Mr Ernest Thornton , Farnworth 12:00, 7 December 1964

The minimum weekly wage for a labourer at Her Majesty's Naval Base, Portland is £10 8s. for a week of 42 hours. The minimum weekly wage for a London worker employed in a civilian shipyard is £9 11 s. for a week of 41 hours, but, in addition a compensatory payment of 15s. a week is made to workers on plain time rates who have had no payments by results, incentive payments or bonuses.