Bennett's of Ballinacurra Descriptive List (Ref. B609)

B609/

B609/5

STAFF AND OFFICERS

Records relating to JHB staff and officers. These include records of service, agreements, wages, salaries, and pensions records, employee schemes, union correspondence, and other items. Senior management is well documented in correspondence (B609/1) and corporate records (B609/4) above. Photographs of officers, malt house staff, and other employees are placed in sub-section B609/8/B below.

B609/5/A

Workmen’s Agreements and Records of Service, 1917-2006

Workmen’s Agreements and Records of Service, and related correspondence, 1917-2006. This sub-section contains records relating directly to service of workers and conditions of work of JHB employees, including maltsters, malt house men, cowkeepers, labourers, and others. Records include agreements, notices, correspondence (including trade union correspondence), accident registers, and other related records.

B609/5/A/1 Maltsters Signed Agreements, 1929-42. Signed by maltsters (Malt House workers) as seasonal employees of JHB. See also 5/A/3 below.

B609/5/A/2 Printed Government Orders and Labour Exchanges, 1920-48. Includes letters from Department of Industry regarding staff holiday entitlements, 1924-25, and copies of labour and cereal-related acts and orders, 1920-48.

B609/5/A/3 Notices to Workers, Dismissal Notices, and Letters, 1922-68. The file is comprised largely of notices to malt house men, farm and dairy workers, and industrial workers, regarding terms of employment, commencement, working hours, and termination of seasonal employment. Copies of letters sent to individual workers are also present, as are a small number of signed agreements. The file contains a contract of employment between JHB and Edmond McCarthy, Ramhill, Ballinacurra, dated 12 July 1938. McCarthy is employed as a stockman and yardman at Ramhill. The post includes the use of a house, and an allowance for calves born and reared satisfactorily to the age of three weeks. Also present is a contract of employment of George B Taylor, Ballinacurra, as assistant manager at JHB, dated 22 May 1935. Part of his remuneration is to come via a commission on net yearly profits. In a letter of 24

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