London Passenger Transport Act 1933

PART VI Wages and Conditions of Service.

67 Settlement of disputes as to pay and conditions of service.

If at any time any question arises with respect to the rates of pay, hours of duty or other conditions of service of any of the employees of the Board to whom this Part of this Act applies, and the Board and such of the trades unions as may be concerned are unable to come to an agreement thereon, the question shall be referred to a Negotiating Committee, and, if the question is not disposed of as a result of being so referred, it shall be further referred to a Wages Board.

68 Constitution of Negotiating Committee and Wages Board.

(1) The Negotiating Committee referred to in the last preceding section shall, subject to the provisions of this section, consist of—

(a) six representatives of the Board to be appointed by the Board; and

(b) six representatives of the employees of the Board, two of whom shall be appointed by each of the trades unions.

(2) The Wages Board referred to in the last preceding section shall, subject to the provisions of this section, consist of—

(a) an independent chairman to be nominated by the Minister of Labour;

(b) six representatives of the Board to be appointed by the Board;

(c) six representatives of the employees of the Board, two of whom shall be appointed by each of the trades unions; and

(d) four other persons to be appointed, as to one, by the General Council of the Trades Union Congress, as to one, by the Co-operative Union, as to one, by the Association of British Chambers of Commerce and, as to one, by the National Confederation of Employers' Organisations.

(3) On the consideration by the Negotiating Committee or the Wages Board of any question referred to them, any party to the reference may raise any point they may consider relevant to the issue, and any point so raised shall be taken into consideration by the Negotiating Committee or the Wages Board, as the case may be.

(4) The constitution of the Negotiating Committee or of the Wages Board may upon twelve months' notice being given either by the Board or by the trades unions be varied by a scheme prepared by a committee consisting of six representatives of the Board and two representatives of each of the trades unions and upon the scheme becoming operative references in this Part of this Act to the Negotiating Committee or to the Wages Board shall be construed as references to the Negotiating Committee or to the Wages Board as so varied.

69 Establishment of councils.

(1) As soon as may be after the first day of July, nineteen hundred and thirty-three, provision shall be made by schemes made under the next following section for the establishment of one or more councils consisting of officers of the Board and representatives of the employees of the Board to whom this Part of this Act applies, to be elected by those employees.

(2) The schemes shall define the constitution and functions of the councils so to be established in such manner as to secure, so far as practicable, that the arrangements in respect of these councils shall be no less favourable to the employees of the Board to whom this Part of this Act applies and such of the trades unions as may be concerned than the arrangements which existed on the twelfth day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-one, in respect of the councils established in connection with the several undertakings which are in whole or in part transferred to the Board by this Act.

70 Power to make schemes.

(1) For the purpose of giving effect to the foregoing provisions of this Part of this Act, schemes shall be made and may, from time to time, be varied by a committee consisting of six representatives of the Board and two representatives of each of the trades unions.

(2) Any scheme so made may be determined by twelve months' notice given either by the aforesaid representatives of the Board or by the aforesaid representatives of the trades unions, so however that no notice determining any scheme so made shall be given before the first day of January, nineteen hundred and thirty-five.

71 Application of Part VI of Act.

(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, the employees of the Board to whom this Part of this Act applies are such employees, being persons engaged on or in connection with the railways of the Board, or in the performance of clerical, administrative, supervisory or technical duties, and not being—

(a) persons who, in accordance with the classification for the time being in force, are comprised within the special class mentioned in the national agreements referred to in the Seventh Schedule to the Railways Act, 1921, or who, if they had been engaged on or in connection with any railway of the Board to which any of those agreements applies, would have been so comprised therein; or

(b) persons in receipt of a weekly wage and employed under shop conditions, either on constructional or repair or maintenance work, or in connection with electricity generating stations or sub-stations or high tension cables between any such stations or sub-stations,

as the committee in making schemes under the last preceding section may from time to time agree to include in those schemes.

(2) The committee, in making schemes under the last preceding section, shall not include in those schemes any persons who immediately before they became officers or servants of the Board were members of the London County Council Staff Association, so long as not less than one hundred of such persons as aforesaid, being officers or servants of the Board, express their desire to be excluded from those schemes.

72 Definition of trades unions.

In this Part of this Act the expression " trades unions " means the National Union of Railwaymen, the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen and the Railway Clerks Association.