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follows: “Each full-time employee who
at the time of illhes or injury is and
has been in the active service of the
employer for a period of .1 full year
or more shall be entitled to 6 working
days’ sick leave with full pay. Each
full-time employee who at the time
of illness or injury is and has been in
the active service of the employer for
a period of 2 full years or more shall
be entitled to 12 wbrking days’ sick
leave with full pay.’’
Slightly over a tenth of the agree
ments had minimum and maximum
wage rates for the same job classifi
cation and a definite schedule of
length-of-service wage increases with
in the rate range. In some of these
agreements, automatic wage increases
were based solely on length of ser
vice. In others, increases were auto
matic up to a given. point within the
range, with further increases on the
basis of merit alone.
Agreements covering almost g
fourth of the workers provided for se
verance pay in the event of termina
tion of employment- Pay was usually
graduated according to length of ser
vice, as in the following example:
“The employer agrees to pay 1 week’s
severance pay for each year of ser
vice.”
Provision for severance pay gives
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employees a limited degree- of job se
curity, by making dismissal of long-
service employees -costlyto the em
ployer.
Nearly two-thirds of the employees
were covered by agreements providing
pension plans. In all of these plans,
employees must have a specified
mum number of years’ service in order
to become eligible.
Among the other, benefits occasion
ally determined by length of service
were preference for premium pay
work, such as overtime, Saturday,
Sunday and holiday work; choice of
days off; preference for regular em
ployment (among part-time and sea-
sona|||workers); choice of runs (in
transportation agreements) or routes
(for driver-salesmen); eligibility for
paid holidays and guarantee of 40
hours’ work per week; amount of
Christmas bonus; and length of un
paid leave.
Some employers give privileges and
awards in recognition of long service,
other than those which are collective
ly bargained. Bonuses and non-mone-
tary benefits such as watches, insignia,
reserved parking space, etc., are ex
amples of such employer recognition.
(Compiled from an article by James
Nix, Division of Industrial Relations,
which appeared in the August, 1951,
issue of the Monthly Labor Review.)
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