Series 241: Industrial Relations Manager and Personnel Officer files, 1963-1992

MLMSS 9894/Boxes 311-320

series

1963-1992

9593724

1.6 metres of textual material (10 boxes)

On 7 April 1975 Kenneth Maxwell Douglas was appointed Industrial Officer. He came with a background of experience in personnel, particularly industrial relations, experience in several major companies. After a short period in the staff department where he became acquainted with the newspaper industry, it was planned that he should proceed to become Industrial Relations Manager responsible to the Board and the General Manager for policy and negotiations. The position was re-named Personnel Services manager in 1976 when it appears to have taken over all of the functions of the Staff Department.

On 18 May 1976 the staff of Personnel Services was as follows
Manager, Personnel Services
Secretary to the Manager
Senior Personnel Officer
Personnel Assistant
Secretary to Senior Personnel Officer
Senior Training and Safety Officer
Training Officer
Safety Co-Ordinator
Secretary to Senior Training and Safety Officer
Industrial Relations Officer.

It is unknown when the Department became known as the Human Resource Management Department. The department was again renamed Personnel and Administration by December 1992

The series consists mainly of minutes to meetings between the company representatives and various unions and internal memoranda to the senior officers of the organisation including the General Manager and Managing Director, Assistant General Manager, the secretary and the Father of Chapel. However there are some external letters to Solicitors and others. Subjects include the affects of automation, industrial agreements, staff duties, retrenchments, industrial action, productivity, salaries, rates and allowances, overtime, allocation of duties, industrial health and safety; implementation of a new system of Employee Record Cards after September 1976, the introduction of the Employee Handbook in 1977; company structure.

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