ARBITRATION COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 120, 23 May 1922, Page 7

ARBITRATION COURT.

SEVERAL RKSEKVED DECISIONS. The Arbitration Court has given judgment in regard to application* recently made in connection with the cost of living bonus. An application for exclusion from the order by the Auckland City Cleaners, Caretakers and Liftmen's Union was refused. This application was based on the asr-ertion that the minimum wage fixed for liftmen was below the Court's general standard rate for unskilled labour. The rate fixed by the Court was so fixed because the average liftman was a pensioner or a youth. The work was light and it was never contemplated that these positions would be filled by men of normal health and capacity. It was expected that in buildings where the work was more onerous and responsible a higher rise would be paid.

An order has been made excluding the Auckland butchers from the operation of the general order. The parties consented to this course at the hearing.

The employers asked for a greatcT reduction in connection with private hotels and boarding-house workers in Auckland, Oisborne, and Rotorua on the ground that the employees were found in board and lodging. The Court held that the basic rate had not been increased to the same extent as in the case of workers in other occupations, and the application was refused.

The Court added the fiisborne district to the Aucklnd motor mechanics award.

In connection with an application tn add parties to the marine cooks nlid stewards (coastal shipping companies) award the Court held that there was no award in existence to which the employers cited- could be added. The application was refused.

The scope of the brass finishers, tinsmiths and general sheet metal workers' award was extended to Gishornc. and seven parties were added as the result.

Tn connection witl) a question of interpretation raised by the Federated Cooks and Stewards' T'nion. the Court held that the rnoks and stewards on the Manaia were not entitled to overtime for time worked after 6 p.m. on the days of departure from Auckland.

A decision was given in regard to an interpretation of the holiday clause of the creameries, cheese, and butter factory employees' aws>rd. The Court held that when the neriod worked was less than eieht months the holiday was to he calculated on the basis of the ratio that that time worked bore to eight months.