BUTTER WORKERS.

Bush Advocate, Volume XX, Issue 1000, 11 April 1908, Page 5

BUTTER WORKERS.

THE AWARD. [press association.] WELLINGTON, to-day. Tho award in the Wellington, butter, creamery, and cheese factory dispute, fixes the minimum weekly wages as follows: — Buttermakers £3 10s, cheesemakers £3 10s; engine-drivers, £3; first assistants, £2 los: cream receivers, £2; creamery managers, £2 os ; other workers, not including youths, £2 os. Youths from 16 to 17 years, not less than los per week; 17 to 18, 25s per week. Casual work- I ers not less than one-eighth in addition to the foregoing rates. No pre- j forence is recommended to unionists. Tho week's work is not to exceed 54 horn's ; tho hours of work in or in connection with creameries to be subject to mutual agreement. Overtime to bo paid at .tho following rates: First four hours, time and a-quarteiy next four hours time and a-half, double thereafter ; overtime not to bo reckoned until the aggregate number of hours actually worked shall have exceeded 54 hours. Every employe/) who has worked not less than eight months during one year for the same employer to receive 14 days' holiday on full pay. A holiday of proportionate duration to be allowed every worker who shall have worked -less than eight months during the same year for the same employer, but not less than six months. Christmas Day and Good Friday to be observed as holidays, and all work done on these days to bo paid for at tho rate of double time.