SETTLEMENT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 185, 6 August 1936, Page 8

SETTLEMENT.

DRIVERS' DISPUTE.

NEW HOURS AND WAGES

OVERTIME AND HOLIDAYS

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

CHRISTCHURCH, this day

With the exception of drivers employed by local bodies, an almost complete settlement has been reached in the Dominion motor and horse driven;' dispute. Full agreement was reached 011 the important points of wages, hours of work, overtime rates and Holidays. A further meeting of the conciliation council will be held in Wellington shortly with a view to making a separate award for drivers employed by- local bodies. For city and suburban drivers hours of work were agreed upon as follow: A 44-hour week, spread over six days, with not more than nine hows in any 0110 day. The wages operating at March 31, 1931, were agreed to, these being as follow:—One-horse drivers, £4 8/ a

week; two-horse drivers, £4 11/; drivers of motor vehicles of a combined weight of vehicle and load not exceeding two tons, £4 11/; two to four tons, £4 13/(>; four to five tons and a half, £4 10/; live tons and a half to ten tons, £5; over ten tons, £5 3/; drivers of tractors, £4 15/. Overtime payments were fixed, at time and a half where overtime is worked outside the daily or weekly hours, except that double time shall be paid for work between midnight and 0 a.m.

Holidays were agreed upon as granted in 1931, with the addition of one week's annual holiday on full pay.

Road Transport Drivers,

Hours of work for road transport drivers were fixed at 88 a fortnight, the daily hours and daily span of hours to be limited in accordance with the number prescribed in the license of the goods operator. Wages were fixed as follows:—

Motor vehicles up to one ton of combined weight, £4 13/ a week; one to two tons, £4 10/; two tons to four tons and a half, £4 18/G; four tons and a half to six tons and a half, £5 2/; over six tons and a half, £5 5/.

Flat rates of overtime were agreed to as follows: —2/10 an hour for trucks up to two tons, 2/11 for trucks from two tons to four tons and a half; 3/ for trucks over four tons and a half.

In lieu of the statutory holidays these workers were granted 12 days' holiday on full pay in each year. It was also agreed that as far as possible tliey should be granted as holidays Anzae Day, Good Friday an'd Christmas Day, or three other days to be substituted for them. It was agreed that the hours of work provision should operate from September 1 and the other provisions from August 21. In those districts where no award is at present in force the 48-liour week is to operate until September 1.