B10 - Sunday News, December 14, 1980

Repair industry gets two step rate hike

ICBC program to cost $13 million

The Insurance Cor- $35.65 an hour. It will in- dustry bill which stands at

corporation and a com-
poration of B.C. has an- crease to $38.40 on April 1, | about $120 million in 1980. mittee representing the
v nounced a two stage in- 1981. industry.
crease in the rates paid to President Tom Holmes These increases in our “It's important the cor-
Japanese Auto Specialists the Province’s auto body said, “The corporation has costs were taken into poration maintains an
; . 9 shops. The first is effective been involved in extensive consideration when we set ongoing understanding of
*‘Quality Service Assured immediately, December 10, discussions with industry the recently announced body shop operations and
o | Serer 1980, while the second representatives and believes premium levels for 1981,” concerns,” said Holmes.
986-5122 986-3116 becomes effective April 1, the increases are equitable, Holmes said. “We also appreciate the

both to the industry and the The decision to set these

need for an up-to-date, fully
The categories are also
changed. There will be just
two shop” rates. One
covering hours involving
general body material use
and a second involving paint
work.

The rate increases are as
follows:

1. The shop rate for basic
labour was $25.60 an hour
and the rate when using
body materials was $28.80 in
1980. These are now
combined and the new rate
effective immediately is
$29.25. It will increase to
$32.00 on April 1, 1981.

2. When using paint
Materials, the rate was
$32.80 in 1980. The new rate
effective immediately is

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new repair industry rates
followed lengthy (tours by
senior managers who visited
many bodyshops across the
Province to get grassroots
feedback and discuss costs,
rates and allied problems. It
also followed a seres of
meetings between the

viable auto repair industry in
the Province.”

The entire series of in-
creases will cost the Cor-
poration and B.C. motorists
an estimated $13 milhon
more in 1981. This is over
and above the repair in-

To this end, he said, the
corporation will continue to
provide technological in-
formation and support data
to assist the industry to do
the best work possible.

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articles 234.1 and 234.2 of
the criminal code valid in
Quebec.” DeBelleval said
Wednesday after in-
troducing a hew highway
code to the national

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