NEW AWARDS MADE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 306, 26 December 1936, Page 6

NEW AWARDS MADE.

LOCAL BODY DRIVERS. HOUfcS AND WAGES FIXED. In an award made for local body drivers for the majority of the industrial districts in the Dominion the Court fixed wages and hours |Of work. The employers' representative, Mr. W. Cecil Prime, dissented from the hours of work fixed, and the workers' representative, Mr. A. L. Monteitli, disseiited from the overtime rates for country work. Generally, hours of work arc to be 42] a -week, and where practicable work is to be limited to the first five days of the week. Wages were fixed as follow: — For driving attending one horse, £4 8/ a week; two horses, £4 11/; for each additional horse, Gd a day or 2/0 a week; motor vehicles up to 2 tons, £4 11/; 2 tons to 4 tons, £4 13/0; 4 tons to 5£ tons, £4 10/; 5J tons to 10 tons, £5; over 10 tons, £5 3/; tractors, £4 15/; grader drivers, £5 5/; road construction work, 2/5 an hour; cartage of sewage, 2/ per day in addition; casual drivers, 15 per cent additional. Workers are to receive one' week's holiday oil full pay cach year, seven statutory holidays and two other days. Overtime is to be at the rate of time and a half, but overtime may be worked on country work for Id additional per hour. The award is to remain in force for one year.