NEW AWARD MADE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 248, 19 October 1937, Page 8

NEW AWARD MADE.

CITY LOCAL BODIES.

WEEKLY WAGES APPROVED. FIVE-DAY WEEK SCHEDULE. Aα it ha-l done in the making of the award for country local borough council employees, the Arbitration Cour , ;, in announcing the new award for Auckland and suburban local bodies and •related trades, added a memorandum recommending the principle of the payment of weekly wagee. A 40-hour five-day week, Monday to Friday, is provided for, though employees may be required to work on Saturdays to attend to essential services. A wage of 2/4 an hour, or £4 8/4 weekly, is provided for pick and shovel work, general concrete work (with eertain exceptions), sewer work, laying and cleaning drains, eweepiny and cleaning streets, cutting grass, gardening labouring, emptying ceae-pits, road and path formation, men on water work*, v lead boilore, ecrewers and bolters, destructor labourers, scarifier operators, tipmen, power board labourers, and other similar work. The wage is fixed 2/5 hourly, or £4 11/8 weekly, for refuse lifters, quarry and scoria pit workers, hydrant men, premix, tar and tar oil and bitumen work, hammer and drill men, blue metal and scoria spreaders (2in and over only), hand packer*, leading hands. wall builders, sewer patrol men. kerb setters, rock workers in trenches, concrete workers, screeners and finishers and men in charge of mixer, tide workers, septic tank cleanere. crueher feeders, scything grass, grave diggers, and weed-killing flame bio were. Tunnetters' Wagee. It is fixed at 2/6 hourly, or £4 15/ weekly, for machine drill men, all classes; work in a tunnel 20ft or more in length or in a sump or shaft 20ft or more in depth from commencement of the work; drain and water pipe layers (pipe 4in diameter and over), green keepers, glasshouse keepere, propagators of plants, shot firere. gangers in charge of six or more men, destructor hands and certified quarrymen. The employer is to have the right to determine whether the workers shall be employed at hourly or weekly rates of Overtime is to be paid at the rate of time and a half for the first four hours and double time thereafter. Workers employed by the -week are entitled to one week's holiday on full pay for each complete year of service. Kmployecs in destructor departments, and latrine attendants or swimming hath attendunts, greasers, firemen and trimmers who are required to work on statutory holidays, receive a fortnight's holiday on full pay. Labourers' Piece Work Prohibited. For power board employees a number of special conditions have been attached, some of these providing for extra money. Piecework by labourers is prohibited. Six hours shall constitute a day's work in tunnelling work where workers are in wet places or foul air, and shall be paid for as if eight hours had been worked. When a worker is required to work overtime after 0 p.m. the employer must provide him with a sufficient meal or pay him 1/6 meal money unless he can reasonably go home for a meal in the time allowed. Nothing in the award applies to employees at the Orakei outfall works, so long as they are paid a minimum wage of £5 5/ a week, are allowed one Sunday off duty in each fortnight, and receive 21 days' paid annual holiday. The award will continue in force until October 18, 1938. Parties to Award. The following are the local bodies made parties to the award: Auckland Power Board (and branches), Auckland and Suburban Drainage Board, Birkenhead Borough Council, Cornwall Park Trust, Devonport Borough Council, Kllerslie Town Board, Glen Eden Town Board, Henderson Town Board, Mount Albert Borough Council, Mount Eden Borough Council, Mount Roskill Road Board, Mount Wellington Road Board, New Lynn Town Board, Newmarket Borough Council, Northcote Borough Council, Onehunga Borough Council, One Tree Hill Borough Council, Otahuhu Borough Council, One Tree HUI Domain Board, Panmure Road Board, St. John's College Trust Board (Purewa Cemetery), and the Takapuna Borough Council.