National Coal Board and British Coal Corporation: Industrial Relations Department

COAL 26

1923-1996

This series contains a selection of files from the Industrial Relations Department and its predecessors which deal with manpower and welfare, administration, conciliation, wages, insurance, miners' pensions and secretariat matters related to the coal industry.

Public Record(s)

English

• British Coal Corporation, Industrial Relations Department, 1987-1987
• National Coal Board, Industrial Relations Department, 1957-1987
• National Coal Board, Labour Relations Department, 1947-1957
• National Coal Board, Manpower and Welfare Department, 1947-1957

1436 files and papers

Open unless otherwise stated

from 2005 Coal Authority

from 1978 National Coal Board

Topics

Labour

Pay and pensions

Coal

Mining and quarrying

Series is accruing

The files in this series have been selected to show the range of work of the Industrial Relations Department.

The Industrial Relations Department of the National Coal Board was formed in the later 1950s by fusing the Labour Relations Department and part of the Manpower and Welfare Department, the educational functions of the latter being passed to the Staff Department. The Industrial Relations Department and its predecessors dealt with all aspects of management of the large industrial workforce employed by the NCB, including manpower, welfare, conciliation in trade disputes, wages and conditions of service, insurance, industrial diseases and miners' pensions. In 1952 the NCB inherited a number of welfare functions from the Miners' Welfare Commission, which passed to this department. It was also responsible for pensions and insurance centres.

Sir W. Citrine, the Board member for Manpower and Welfare was also Chairman of the Miners' Welfare Commission.