STOREMEN'S PAY.
INCREASE IN NEW AWAJRD. Storemen and packers will receive an increase of 5/ a week for ordinary workers and 2d an hour for casual workers under a new award to operate from July (8 for one year. The casual rate is 2/6 ian hour, and the wage for adult workers £4 15/ a week, head storemen in charge of two or more .workers to be paid 10/ more, and if supervising over I five workers 20/ more.
The employers' representative on the Court, Mr. W. Cecil Prime, dissented the increase.
A separate award, operating over the jsame period, was made for oil-stores, in iwhieh the casual rate is 2/6 per hour, jand adult storemen's wages £4 16/8 for jordinary and £4 19/2 for leading hand*. Watchmen are to get £5 2/6. An allowance of 3d an hour for dirt money ie fixed.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 154, 1 July 1940, Page 5
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