NEW AWARD.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 251, 22 October 1937, Page 9

NEW AWARD.

LOCAL GLASSWORKERS.

A MAJORITY' DKCfSfO.V.

worknT V | fIW T I for A,,ck l«nd glasfl"rinv ,y - Il'-c.sjon, Mr. W. Cecil Prime, member, dissenting from the rate* of icf»r,tl » XL ' d .'i ,IIU l )ri,lt ' i P al matters holiday!, C ° mt We, '° W ' lgCS anJ rat« , nf"n jo, i ty detision ' llrr eaaes the rate of the lowest-pawl workers bv 4/ » week, with a small further ailowance in the case of shift workers. The into for firemen has not been altered in view of the fact that their weekly hour* have been reduced to a greater extent than those of other workers SOl teri have been granted a week's annua holiday as compensation for the difficulty experienced by them in obtaining meal*.

i«i workers except watchmen, hours are fixed at 40 per week, with a fne-dny week, from Monday to Friday ■An exception to these provisions is made, however, in the case of shift workers.

Minimum weekly rates of wages ranee from £4 0/0 for yArd hands, packers and bach-house workers, to £4 18/0 for firemen For youth# the range is between £1 o/ and £l 10/ for those of 10 to 17 years of and £2 15/ for those from 20 to 21 yearn. For casual workers, that m workers engaged for less than one •week, the rate ia not less than 2/4 an hour.

Firemen and sorters are given an annual holiday of one week on full pay. The award came into force yesterday, for the term of one year. The limits of hours under the Factories Act are extended on the terms of the award, in respect of every occupier of a factory bound by the award.