Staffing the Hospitals : An Urgent National Need
1945 1945 1940s 20 pages 9 26. The membership of the Factory and Welfare Advisory Board of the Ministry of Labour and National Service has already been extended to cover the welfare of domestic workers in institutions, and in accordance with the advice of the Board, the officers of the Ministry of...
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London : Published for the Minister of health, the Secrerary of State for Scotland and the Minister of labour and national service by H.M.S.O.
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9 26. The membership of the Factory and Welfare Advisory Board of the Ministry of Labour and National Service has already been extended to cover the welfare of domestic workers in institutions, and in accordance with the advice of the Board, the officers of the Ministry of Labour and of the Health Departments have been instructed to give special attention to all aspects of the welfare of these workers. The Board's recommendations have been taken into account in the preparation of this paper and the appended codes. 27. Recognition of the vital importance of the domestic side of the hospital services necessarily marches with radical improvements in the material conditions under which this work is to be carried out. There was, in 1943, the Hetherington Committee's examination of the problem, which resulted in the recommendation of certain minimum standards of wages and conditions of employment not covered by negotiated agreements. But the Hetherington Committee was a war-time body, not a standing organisation, and its recommendations were essentially of an interim nature. A fuller, more permanent, national machinery was needed — and this has now been provided. The organisations of employers and employees in England and Wales have established a National Joint Council for the ordered regulation of terms and conditions of service for hospital domestic workers and such other non-nursing staff as may be brought within its scope. This National Joint Council represents all the appropriate organisations for negotiation, both on the employers' and on the trade union side, and its first task will be to agree wage rates for the staff concerned. Consideration is being given to the establishment of similar negotiating machinery for Scotland. 28. The second of the appended codes of working conditions relates, as will be seen, entirely to the domestic field of hospital employment. While it is recognised that in many of the hospitals adequate standards have already been achieved, the war time conditions under which some hospital domestic workers have been employed have inevitably been arduous and difficult. The Hospital Domestic Workers' Code represents the standard which in future all concerned should have as their object.
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