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Clive | Report | 14 Jul 2007 15:28 |
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post office worker |
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Clive | Report | 14 Jul 2007 15:33 |
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The pension record for a post office clerk 2nd class showed her as having 30 or 31 normal holidays days off per year in the 1900 - 1906 period. Scandalous she was paid £95 per year too! Until the last two years of 10 she did not have days off sick though. Interesting she left to get married and apparently even then the concept of a preserved pension was alive and well. But if 10 of those days off were bank holidays 20 days holiday in the 1906 days seem like an awful lot. Oh yea, I was supposed to be looking up where how pensions were paid. I did not find the answer. C |
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Fiona aka Ruby | Report | 14 Jul 2007 15:49 |
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Post Office workers still get a very generous holiday entitilement, and the pension is not so bad either. OH says it's a great pity that the wages haven't changed much in the past century. £95pa doesn't buy what it used to!!! |
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