from the NUFTO Journal “Did you know that on average workers in British industry are at their benches, vats, machines or whatever marvel of the industricl revolution demands their attention for (a) longer than the Itrlinns, Germans, Jugoslavic, custrians, Japonese, Belgicns, “mcricans - in fact, you nome the country, it reouires shorter hours from its workers (unless . you nominate France, where the system is cpparently even crazier than ours); (bd) just about as many hours as did their fathers - in some cases grandfathers - almost 50 years ago? You don't believe it? Then your naivety is such thnt your career as a safety offocer is likely to be a frust atige one. Study the Ministry of Lxabour Gazett®, ‘the Annual R8?Srt of tie Ministry of L-bour cnd the Statistical Supplement of the International Labour Review, and you will find that the ave nge British worker puts in 7 hours of overtime each week, which brings his average week almost to t>e 48 hours and hardly any overtime put in by his forebears of 1919. Only one country is working as many - or more hours. eeeetrom « Safety Officer's Notebook."
Special Correspondent -n analysis by H..Y-MSL, the consultsnts to management, records that salaries of executives went up by on average of 7.57 in the 12 months to July ‘ist. This is close on double the rate of increase regarded as the norm during t!e period in cuestion,. At the upper end of the executive scecle, a duly 1965 salary of 25,738 has become 26,207, a rise of 8.2%, Salaries of 28,000 and upwards are estimated to have risen by a percentage of 8,3 .. trend is noted snong middle management of a move towards a 4 weck annuecl holiday period, as the shop floor holiday entitlement moves Slowly from 2 to 3 wecks, H/.Y-MSL 2lso notes an upwaris movement in fringe benefits which now account for from 11.22;3 of 2 basic salary of £1,000 to 31.1% of Salaries exceeding 27,000.