Information from the National Service Department outlining details of the Home Aid service; the conditions of employment including wages.
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Identification
- Object type
- Correspondence
- Identifier
- Series 6
- Archive
- C. E. Warburton Papers
- Relation
- Community Archives
- Date
- 1940s
- Digitisation ID
- 2009Pa_WARBURTON-S6_2841
- Format
- Paper
- Held In
- IMCA Digital Archive
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- National Employment Service
- Place
- Palmerston North
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NATIONAL SERVICE DEPARTMENT.
P.O. Box 165, Te Aro, WELLINGTON. C.2.
HOME AID SERVICE.
WAGES & CONDITIONS.
Home Aids will be Public Servants, and exempt from
Manpower direction. They will be free to resign from the Service
if they wish to. Aids will be entitled to sick leave on full pay
on the scale applying in the Public Service, and will receive two
weeks paid holidays each year. They will also be able to become
contributors to the Public Service Superannuation Fund, if they so
desire. Travelling expenses to and from work will be paid by the
Department.
Aids will work 40 hours a week. They will not start work
before 7 a.m. or finish later than 7 p.m. and will not work more
than 8 hours on any one day.
The following wages will be paid:-
(a) Trainee £2.10.0 a week
(b) Certificate Holders £3.10.0
(c) Diploma Holders £4. 0.0
(d) Juniors according to age.
(a) Trainees are Aids under training who have not
reached Certificate standard.
(b) Certificate holders are Aids who have qualified at a
minimum level of competence, but who are not yet capable of taking
over full responsibility for household management.
(c) Diploma holders. Aids who have qualified at a higher
level of competence and are regarded as fully capable of taking
over full responsibility for household management.
(d) Juniors being girls under 18. Although they [have?]
passed trainee stage are by reason of age suitable for selected
engagements within a restricted range of duties, without
responsibilities and in approved homes.
TRAINING. A course of training is being arranged in the
Technical College.
[ACCOMMODATION]. Home Aids, particularly in respect of their first
period of service will be housed in suitable accommodation under
the control of the Home Aid Service.
A Home Aid may live in her own home and observe daily
hours if preferred.
UNIFORM. A smart working overall will be supplied. It is not
proposed that a street uniform should be worn.
Call or write to nearest Manpower Officer for further
particulars of this truly worth-while service.