Second report of Nurses Salaries Committee : salaries and emoluments of male nurses, public health nurses, district nurses and state registered nurses in nurseries.

  • Great Britain. Nurses Salaries Committee.
Date:
1943
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Credit: Second report of Nurses Salaries Committee : salaries and emoluments of male nurses, public health nurses, district nurses and state registered nurses in nurseries. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Report as to annual increments, breaks in service, and acting rank, shall apply to nurses employed in the nurseries, with the modification mentioned in paragraph 54 above. t10. Hours of Duty.—We do not feel it is practicable or necessary to make any specific recommendations about the hours of duty of nurses employed in nurseries. 111. Holidays.—We recommend that nurses employed in_ residential nurseries shall have four weeks annual leave with pay; and that nurses em- ployed in day nurseries shall have three weeks annual leave with pay in addition to paid leave on the usual public holidays.* During annual leave a holiday allowance of 15s. a week shall be paid to resident staff, including nurses employed in residential nurseries who are required by their employing authority to live out (see Note 1 to Table VII). During annual leave a holiday allowance of Ios. a week shall be paid to non-resident staff employed in residential nurseries who have been permitted to live away from the nurseries at their own request, and who receive the living-out allowance referred to in Column (6) of Table VII (see Note 2 to that Table). 112. Leave to attend Refresher Courses.—We recommend that employing authorities shall grant trained nursing staft employed in nurseries special paid leave at intervals not exceeding five years to attend refresher courses which are approved by the Ministry of Health as suitable for the staff concerned. The employing authority shall pay the tuition fees and travelling expenses of the nurses concerned. If the nurse is receiving a resident salary and is entitled to maintenance in addition, the employing authority shall pay for her board and lodging while she is undergoing the course. If, however, the nurse is receiving an inclusive non-resident salary she shall herself pay for her board and lodging. 113. Sick Pay.—We recommend that, during sickness, nurses employed in nurseries shall receive, in any period of 12 months, sick pay for at least the periods shown in the tables below, subject, in the case of compulsory con- tributors, to deduction of any statutory sickness or disablement benefit payable under the National Health Insurance Acts:— During the first year—z month’s full pay and (after 4 months’ service) 2 months’ half pay. During the second year—z2 months’ full pay and 2 months’ half pay. During third year and thereafter—3 months’ full pay and 3 months’ half pay. | These periods are minima, and each employing authority will have dis- cretion to extend them in individual cases. Resident staff, i.e., those covered by Table VII and Table VIII, Part B, will receive an allowance of 15s. a week during periods of sick leave on full pay and 7s. 6d. a week during periods of sick leave on half pay, except where the absence is for less than a continuous week, in which case the allowances will not be payable. Nurses in a residential nursery who are permitted to be non-resident (Note 2 to Table VII) will receive in addition to their salary and living-out allowance, an allowance of Ios. a week during periods of sick leave on full pay, and 5s. a week during periods of sick leave on half pay, subject to the same exception. No allowance is payable if a nurse is being * Paid leave on the usual public holidays, in addition to three weeks annual leave, will mean, that nurses in day nurseries will receive in all the equivalent of four weeks’ annual leave like the nurses in residential nurseries. t “ Resident ”’ staff includes staff in residential nurseries who are required by their em- ploying authority to live out.
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