PHOTO ENGRAVERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 78, 3 April 1939, Page 11

PHOTO ENGRAVERS.

NEW AWARD ANNOUNCED. PAY MADE RETROSPECTIVE. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, this day. By a majority decision, the Arbitration Court has issued an award covering new conditions for the New Zealand Photo Engravers' Industrial Association. The matters referred to the Court were hours, annual holiday and existing conditions. Mr. W. Cecil Prime, employers' representative on the Court, dissented from the majority opinion. With the consent of both parties wages will be paid retrospectively to the first working week beginning on or after Sunday, November 6, 1938, while the term of the whole award is for a year until November 5, 1930. Hours were fixed at 40 a week. The ordinary hours for trade houses are to be worked on five daye of the week from Monday to Friday. In newspaper offices special arrangements have been made to meet special conditions of work. The Court has allowed one week's holiday on full pay, while the provisions of the Factories Act in regard to other holidays, payment for holidays and payment for work done on Sundays and holidays are to apply to the award. An employee who, while on holiday, works for another employer, forfeits his holiday Pay. Rates nf wages were fixed as under: — Improvers: For period of six months, £3 17/fi. Process journeymen: From £5 10/ for printers, mounters, strippers, provers and routers, to £7 for colour Operators and colour etchers. Photolitho journeymen: From £5 15/ for photo-litho platemakers to £7 10/ for photo-litho colour separators. An allowance not to exceed 10/ •« week for adult workers and 5/ for anior workers has been made for wo Kers regularly employed on eight *