ARBITRATION COURT.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13161, 7 July 1908, Page 10

ARBITRATION COURT.

» IRON AND BRASS MOULDERS' DIS- " PUTE. In connection with the dispute be-tM-eeti the Christchurch Iron and Brass Moulders' Industrial Union of Workers and the employers, the following is the text of the Arbitration Court's award:— (1) Forty-seven hours to be a week's Mcrk. (2) All overtime to be paid for at the rate of time and a-quarter for the first tM-o hours, then time and ahalf till midnight, and thereafter double time until tho usual starting hour in the morning. Double timo on Sunday. New Year's Day, Good Kridav, Easter Monday, Labour Day, King's Birthday, and Ouristmas Day. (3) Any workman working overtime exclusivoly in repairing uiiy machinery or appliances used by hi. employer, to be \> ud for such overtime at the same rate :.s ior ins Mork -curing ordinary hours. (,4) (a) lhe wages of competent iron, steel, and brass moulders (.including plate moulders) to be not less than 3s &d per hour, (b) A worker may U> employed to M-ork a moulding machine at a wage of not less tha_i Is lid per hour. (5) A worker. may be employetl on piocework at a rate to bo first agreed on lietween the employer ami the journeyman moulders then in his employment, but so that any worker employed on piecework shall be paid in any evert no: less than the miuimum M-age. (ti) (a) Any incapable Morker shall bo paid such lower wage as may from time to timo bo agreed on in tho usual M - ay. (b) such ]x;rmit shall he for a period not exceeding six months, as the chairman of the Conciliation Board or any other person appointed shall determine, and after the expiration of such period shall continue in force until fourteen cays' notice shall have been- given to such worker by tho secretary of .-he union concerned. Provided that in the case of any person M-hose Mage is so fixed by reason of old age or ]>ernianent disability, it may be fixed for such longer period, as such chairman on any other person appointed shall think fit. ■<*) Notwithstanding tho foregoing, it shall be competent for a worker to agree Mith the president or the secretary of the union upon such wage, without having the same so fixed, (d) It shall ba tho duty of the Union to give notice to the Inspector of Factories of every agreement made with a worker pursuant hereto, (c) It- shall be the duly of an employer before employing a worker at such IoM-er rate to examine the permit or agreement by which su .'i wage is fixed. (7) Apprentices to be paid os a week for the first six months, 7s- Gd for the second six months, 10a for the second.year, 15s for the third year, £1 a week for tho fourth yeaT, 25s for the fifth year and 30s for the sixth year. (8) The period of apprenti*,_:hip shall be six years, but three mouths' probation.shall be allowed tho first employer of any apprentice to determine his fitness, such three months to be included in the period of the apprenticeship. (9) At the end of tho apprenticeship the employer shall give the apprentice a certificate to show that he has served hie apprenticeship.' .Should the employer at any time before tho termination of the apprenticeship wi_.li to dispense with tho apprentice's services, he shall give a certificate for the time served and procure him another employer carrying on business within a reasonable distance of the original employer's place of business, who will continue to teach the apprentice and to pay him the wages prescribed by tho award. It ahall not be obligatory upon an employer to find +ho apprentice another employer if he shall so mi-conduct himself as to entitle tho employer to discharge him, but he shall give him a certificate for the term served (10) The Inspector of Factories to be notified if an apprentice is taken on, and the transference of any apprentice to be also notified to the Inspector (11) An employer shall not bo deemed to discharge his duty to-M-ards his apprentice if he fails to keep him at work owing to' slackness, but such slackness may fofcm a ground' for transferring.hiin to another master willing to take him. (12) The Inspector of Factories to be notified if any apprentice is discharged and for what reasons. (13) Employers to employ members of the Union in preference to non-unionists, provided they are equally competent. This clause shall not apply to persons already employed. (14) Tho usual "Employment Book" to be kept by tiie Union. (15) Employers not to discriminate against members of the Union in engaging or dismissing them or in their dealings with them. (16) Unionists and non-unionists to work in harmony and tmder the same i conditions. (17) The award- to apply cniy to employers carrying on businese. within a. radius of ton miles from the Chief Post Office in Christohurch. (18) The award to come into force on July 6th, 190S and to continue till July 6th, 1910. The Court, fn a memorandum affixed to the aM-ard, expresses an opinion favourable to tho premium or bohus system (which'the Union asked the Court to prohibit), if worked under fair oon- | ditions.