ARBITRATION COURT.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16932, 6 September 1920, Page 4

ARBITRATION COURT.

-♦ awabds amended. The Court of Arbitration has amended the Canterbury Female Bookbinders, laperRulera. and. Cutters' award by providing that the minimum wage icrr females 6ha.il bo • For first six months- 15a per -week, secoml *hi months 17a 6d, for second year 22s frl per week, third year 27e €d, fourth year JZs Gd, and thereafter £2 per week; those rat**; are to bo increased by 3s per week bonui till thft. Court otherwise orc.ers. Time; Jos. through the workers' siciness or default, or through voluntary absence from work vrith th-o consent ol the employer, may be deducted from wage®. Tho order takes effect as from Hay lst,° 1920. The Qvntorbnrv 'Electrical Workers' award is amended by adding to Clause 7 the following:—(n) The rates of wages heroin prescribed for apprentices shall apply to !ul apprentices at pTCsent employed in. anv shoo or iactory." The order operates as from April 16th, 1920. . The SKearers and Shed Hands award amended by providin s that the minimum rates proscribed in fe) of Clause 17 shall be increased by bonuses to adult worksis on weekly wages by ICa per week; for adult workers on hourly wages, by *>Jd per hour; to ■vouths on weekly wasjes. 3s per wecK, on hourly wages lid per hour. Tire oracr operates as from August Ist, 10-20.