IN RECOGNISED HOURS OF LABOUR, AND THE AGGREGATE AMOUNT EACH OF THE YEARS 1910-1925.

90,050 2,696,000 123,000 (6) 18,750 (6) 18,000 (b) 2,750 (b) 6,250

and clerks. In many cases changes arranged by individual employers, or affecting unorganised workers, are not reported.

1,850

Other Industries.

130 PROFIT-SHARING AND LABOUR CO-PARTNERSHIP.*

NUMBER OF FIRMS WITH SCHEMES OF PROFIT-SHARING IN GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND; NUMBERS OF WORKPEOPLE COVERED; AND BONUSES PAID, 1910–1925.

NUMBER OF SCHEMES STARTED, DISCONTINUED, AND STILL IN OPERATION AT THE END OF 1925, IN GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND, WITH NUMBERS OF WORKPEOPLE COVERED BY EXISTING SCHEMES.

The statistics given in the Tables on this and the next three pages are exclusive of profit-sharing arrangements in co-operative societies, particulars not being available for the whole period 1910-25. In 1925 125 societies, with 23,000 employees, were known to have profit-sharing schemes in operation. Returns from 112 of these societies showed that the bonuses paid to employees in 1925 averaged £4 18s. 8d. per head, or 4.1 per cent. on earnings.

† Some firms have more than one scheme in operation.

For a number of schemes information as to bonuses is not available.
Schemes under which no bonus was paid are included.

|| Statistics not available.

of 1925.

PROFIT-SHARING AND LABOUR CO-PARTNERSHIP.

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NUMBER OF SCHEMES STARTED, DISCONTINUED, AND STILL IN OPERATION AT THE END OF 1925 IN GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND, WITH NUMBERS OF WORKPEOPLE COVERED BY EXISTING SCHEMES -continued.

II. SCHEMES CLASSIFIED BY INDUSTRY OR BUSINESS.

Industry or Business.

[Exclusive of schemes in Co-operative Societies.]

Total Number of Schemes known to have been started.

Number of such Schemes discontinued

by end

SCHEMES STILL IN OPERATION AT THE END OF 1925, AND SCHEMES DISCONTINUED BY THAT DATE, CLASSIFIED ACCORDING TO TYPES OF SCHEMES.

[Exclusive of schemes in Co-operative Societies.]

Number of Schemes still in operation
at end of 1925, started in the under-
mentioned Periods.

Total Number of Workpeople employed in 1925.

Approx.
Number of

Number

Employees

of Schemes

entitled to discontinued

Schemes consisting in the issue to employees of share capital, either free, or on specially favourable terms as to price or dividend

"Deposit" Schemes, i.e., Schemes

under which interest, varying with the profits, is allowed on deposits made by employees Other Schemes, analysed by

methods of paying bonus: (2) Bonus paid in cash, or credited to a savings or deposit account

(b) Bonus retained in a provident, superannuation, or other similar fund

(c) Bonus paid in shares or invested in capital of the undertakingt

(d) Bonus paid in other ways; combinations of above systems; and method of payment unknown

Some firms have more than one scheme in operation. †The firms in this group are almost entirely gas companies.

In some of these schemes employees may receive part or the whole of their subsequent bonuses in cash, etc., after

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PROFIT SHARING AND LABOUR CO-PARTNERSHIP.

ANALYSIS OF BONUSES PAID IN 1924 AND 1925 UNDER THOSE SCHEMES FOR WHICH PARTICULARS OF BONUS PAYMENTS ARE AVAILABLE.

I. SCHEMES CLASSIFIED ACCORDING TO RATE OF BONUS.
[Exclusive of schemes in Co-operative Societies.]

II. SCHEMES CLASSIFIED ACCORDING TO INDUSTRY OR BUSINESS.

[Exclusive of schemes in Co-operative Societies.]

Industry or Business.

Number of Number Average Percentage Number of Number Average
Schemes
of
Amount
Schemes
of
Amount
for which Employees of
for which Employees! of
particulars entitled Bonus
entitled
Bonus

Addition
of
Bonus
to

Percentage Addition of

particulars

Bonus

available. participate head.*

Earnings. available. participate

Schemes under which no bonus was paid are included for the purpose of calculating the average amount of bonus per head and the percentage addition to earnings; but in calculating the latter figure it has been necessary to omit certain cases in which the percentage could not be stated.

† Not available.

PROFIT-SHARING AND LABOUR CO-PARTNERSHIP.

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DURATION OF SCHEMES DISCONTINUED BY END OF 1925, CLASSIFIED BY CAUSE OF DISCONTINUANCE, AND BY INDUSTRY OR BUSINESS.

SCHEMES CLASSIFIED BY CAUSE OF DISCONTINUANCE.

[Exclusive of schemes in Co-operative Societies.]

SCHEMES CLASSIFIED BY INDUSTRY OR BUSINESS.

[Exclusive of schemes in Co-operative Societies.]