| Description | With updates up to 1965 (but mostly containing information dated 1964).
Has sections on recruitment, engagement, standard letters of engagement, standard conditions of service, holidays, training with the armed forces, staff pension and death benefit schemes, payment of salaries during sickness, transfers and promotion, travelling in the UK, travelling overseas, termination of service, Contracts of Employment Act 1963.
Also includes memos on the following:
Memo from the Secretary, Stafford (1 August 1952) on the new staff manual which supersedes the brochure 'Engagement of Staff' first issued in 1947; memo from Secretary's Office, Stafford (29 December 1954) on new Central Staff Department to be part of the Secretary's Office (taking over some functions previously administered in the Chief Cashier's Office); memo from the Secretary, Stafford (2 May 1960) on levels for weekly and monthly staff (overtime, salaries, rail travel); memo from Chief of Personnel & Training (24 May 1962) noting that in future all medical certificates required because of sickness should be sent to the Welfare Department, which will then send copies to the relevant departments; note on payment of men who start jobs early in the morning and finish late at night (1 June 1962); memo from Assistant Director of Personnel, Stafford to all holders of the staff manual (12 May 1966) giving guidance on engagement and transfer of staff, pending the amendment of the staff manual to cover the new categorisation system; undated note from the Secretary giving details of information on new members of staff required for Central Staff Records Section. Also blank example of staff engagement card. |