RATES FIXED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 218, 15 September 1939, Page 3

RATES FIXED.

EMERGENCY WORKS.

CARPENTERS AND JOINERS.

VEXED QUESTION SETTLED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) C'HR ISTC'HURCH, Thursday. "Tho vexed question relating to hours, w a gets and overtime in connection with work of a military nature has now been completed, aixl the following conditions have been issued under the authority of the Hon. P. C. Webb and the Hon. P. Semple, and they will probably be gazetted to-day," said Air. Sutcliffe, of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and .Joiners. "The union, by obtaining these conditions, has probably, with the exception of double time, got intact the conditions obtaining in the carpenters and joiners' award."

The agreement provides in connection with emergency defence works —the establishment of military camps, aerodromes, road works or the erection of stores —that the provisions of awards or agreements iu respect of extended hours of work are to be suspended, subject to the following conditions:—

(1) If three shifts are being worked per day workers shall receive, in addition to their ordinary wages, an allowance of 3/ per shift, and 2/ per shift where two shifts are being worked. The shifts shall be rotated.

(2) All proposed arrangements for shift work by the Department and contractors must be telegraphed by the district engineers for approval of the Minister of Public Works.

(3) If more thai! eight hours are worked on any day overtime rate<» must be paid.

(4) All time worked on Saturday shall he paid for at time and a half.

(.">) Excepting as above, all extended hours of work shall be paid for at the rate and subject to the conditions for extended hours provided for in awards

or agreements, -but not less than time and a half.

(li) Any travelling time outside ordinal y hours to be paid for at ordinary rates and not overtime rates.