PAINTERS' AWARD.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXIII, Issue 281, 6 December 1911, Page 4

PAINTERS' AWARD.

[PBEBS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON, This Day. In adding parties to the painters' award to-day, the Arbitration Court appended the following memorandum: ""Whore .an award is made in connection with trade or industry, the parties to the award should be limited, as far as possible, to employers who are engaged in that particular trade or industry. The employers named in this order are not carrying; on business as master painters; they therefore should not be. added as ordinary parties to the award. They, however, are doing work from time to time that comes within the scope of the award, and are employing journeymen painters. In tiiese circumstances the proper course to adopt, in the opinion of the court, is to add them as parties to the award, so as to bind them to pay the wages iixed by the award, and also to pay for overtime, and for work, done on holidays, according to the provisions of the award ; but they should not be bound by the other provisions of the award which, prima facie, are . applicable onlv to employers in. business as master'painters. The.court adopted the same course with regard to -builders and other similar employers, whew dealin" with the boilermakors dispute in September Inst,. That and. the present case are to be treated as settling the practice of the court w.th regard'"to all similar cases.