CLOTHING TRADE EMPLOYEES

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 66, Issue 273, 30 August 1946, Page 5

CLOTHING TRADE EMPLOYEES

TERMS OF AWARD Increases in minimum wage rates for employees under the New Zealand Clothing Trade Employees award have been announced by the Court of Arbitration. The rates are subject to two cost-of-living bonuses. The Court has also issued the New Zealand Shirt, White and Silk, Workers’ Award, which provides for similar wage minimums. The increases for female apprentices and improvers range from 2s Gd to Os Gd a week. Provision is made that workers more than 16 years of ;ige receive us a week in advance oi the set rates, those over 17 years of age 7s Gd in advance, and over 18 years 10s in advance. This proviso will not operate to increase journeywomen’s rates. Workers over 21 will not be paid less than £3 a week. Females employed in teaching male apprentices or adult male machinists will, while so employed, be paid the rates specified for male machinists. Females employed in sorting, ticketing, Tioxing, and distributing work will be paid wages that show increases ranging from 2s Gd to 8s Gd a week. Pressers will be paid a minimum wage of £6 a week, and clothing oilers the minimum time-wage prescribed for pressers (increases of 8s 4d a week). Youths other than apprentices may be employed at seam-opening at wages ranging from £1 9s Gd to £5 10s a week, the increases in this section being from 2s Gd to 12s Gd. The minimum wage for a secondclass chart-cutter will he £6 5s a week, and for a stock-cutter and trimmer £6 a week. For examiners, the minimum wage is set at £6 a week. Youths other than apprentices may he employed assisting examiners in the proportion of one youth to each three or fraction of three adults at rates varying from £1 9s Gd to £6 a week. This award shall be deemed to have come into effect on July 1, 1946.