CARPENTERS AND JOINERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 186, 7 August 1936, Page 15

CARPENTERS AND JOINERS.

PARTIAL AGREEMENT REACHED.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, this day. The hearing of the dispute between the New Zealand Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners and the Joiners' Machinists Industrial Association of Workers and the New Zealand Federated Builders and Contractors' Industrial Association of Employers and other employers was continued in Conciliation Council to-day. When the council adjourned yesterday afternoon there was still no agreement on hours aiid wages. A number of lesser points, however, had been settled. Overtime is to be paid at one and a half times the daily rate for the first fout hours, and thereafter double time. Double rates are to be paid for work on Saturday afternoon, Sunday, New Year's Day, Good Friday, Christmas Day, ing Day, Easter Saturday and Monday, and Labour Day. No worker is to do more than five consecutive hours' work without a meal interval. The employers agreed to restrict overtime and employ extra men if there were available any union members out of work, and the union undertook on request to supply any available labour. The claims of the men were for a Dominion award for an eight-hour day with a five-day week. The minimum wage claimed for employees covered by the award when working a 40-liour week was £6, casual workers to be paid not less than 3/3 an hour. A casual worker is one employed less than two weeks. It was also claimed that wages be paid not later than Thursday in each week and that, overtime be prohibited except in cases of extreme necessity or accident. A week's holiday on full pay for each completed twelve months was sought, and 3/G a week in addition to the weekly wages for a tiavellins: allowance for all workers was claimed. It was also pronosed that piecework be pro hibited. The application provided for suburban and country work, and for a preference clause. The employers objected to the claims and asked for the 1935 award.