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April 1959 Pay Scale for UK Service Engineers   The standard rate of pay for service engineers per 44-hour week is fixed as follows : (a) Radio and TV engineers who have served a five years' apprenticeship, £11 7s. 6d. (b) Radio and TV engineers who have served a five years' apprenticeship and who have gained the R.T.E.B. certificate in radio servicing, £12 7s. 6d. (c) Radio and TV engineers who have served a five years' apprenticeship and gained the R.T.E.B. certificate in television servicing, £13 7s. 6d, Other employees : semiskilled persons engaged on general radio and television, installation and maintenance, £9 7s. 6d. The agreement defines hours of work, overtime, wages during sickness, holidays with pay, tools and equipment, and a note regarding private work to the effect that no engineer shall undertake work in his own time. A further schedule quotes the following rates of pay for apprentices for a 44-hour week: first year, £3 ; second year, £4 ; third year, £5 ; fourth year, £6 ; fifth year, £7 10s. In addition, 10s. per week will be paid to apprentices entitled to the R.T.E.B. radio servicing certificate and a further £1 per week to those entitled to the Board's TV servicing certificate. Although two-thirds of the population now have television, 7.5 m. still receive BBC only. There is a general fall off of evening programmes. Copyright ©1998 SatCure Updated May 23, 1999 This file may be downloaded for private and personal use but NO part of it may be published in any form without the prior permission of the author. Send this page address - CLICK HERE - to a friend !