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

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B609/5/E/1 Salaries, Bonuses, and Redundancies, 1908-69. File largely comprised of pages from a report on salaries, bonuses, and pensions, with information in tabular form. Begins with statement of number and type of employees, and wages and salaries, for year ending 18 July 1908. Typed pages recording staff leave, salaries and bonuses for the period 1960-64 follow. A page headed Appendix D reports on the labour position for the region. Appendix E gives Anticipated Staff Requirements. Appendix E.1 gives Details of Salaries & Co of Staff Proposed to be Retained. Subsequent pages relate to staff to be made redundant, and the entitlements of long- serving staff. Notes are present on the entitlements of two named workers, Dan Hartnett and Jim Staunton. The file also contains three typed reports (c1940) on the service of three men who began working with the Company in 1899 or earlier. All three receive benefit from Mr Bennett’s Workmen’s Trust Fund [see also B609/9/E/10 below]. The men are Nicholas Costelloe, Henry Sullivan, and Michael Sweeney. The report gives a brief account of their service and condition in life. Two of them receive store credit through the fund, as a cash payment would interfere with their State Home Assistance payment. [See also B609/5/A/3 above]. B609/5/E/2 Ballinacurra Workmen’s Club Account Book, 1912-26 (1927-33). Account book of this club set up by workers of JHB. Receipts consist mainly of subscriptions and entrance fees. Expenditure includes charwoman’s wages, newspapers, oil for lamps, and some entertainments. John H Bennett seems to have purchased or supplied the club with some items, such as oil, and was then reimbursed by them. The Club closed in February 1926, but the outstanding balance in hand remained in the Bank until December 1933, when, it is explained in a note, now amounted to £9 18s 10d, it was ‘handed to Maurice Walsh Harb. Master and John Walsh Carpenter and Patrick Mulcahy Labourer to divide it among the surviving members of the Workmens Club when it was closed in Feby 1926 – See Minute Book of the Ballinacurra Workmen’s Club’ [not present].

B609/5/E/2 National Insurance Stamps, 1971-78. Record of stamps earned, and used when staff members are out sick.

B609/5/E/3 PAYE and PRSI Record, 1978-87. Records of payment of these wage- related taxes. Employee names are not given.

B609/5/E/4 PAYE Receipts, 1967

B609/5/E/5 Redundancy Payments, c1969. Staff records of service and forms under the Redundancy Payments Act, 1967. The forms are completed by the employer to claim a rebate from the redundancy fund.

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