AWARD ISSUED.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18073, 15 May 1924, Page 5

AWARD ISSUED.

PAINTERS AND DECORATORS.

The Arbitration Court has issued an award in the painters and decorators' dispute. The main questions have been dealt with as follows: The hours for journeymen are not to exceed eight hours on five days of the week, and four hours on Saturdays. The minimum wages for journeymen painters, paperhangers, glaziers, grainers, signwriters, and decorators is to he 2s 2d per hour. Overtime is to be paid for at the rate of time and >a half for the first four hours, and double time thereafter. Double time is to be paid for specified holidays. Wages are to, be paid weekly, not later than Friday. Suburban work in Wellington is that done over one and a half miles from Te Arc- Post Office, or outside the employer's shop, if such shop is situated within one mile of the central point. Where the 6hop is over one mile, all work done over one and a half miles from the shop is suburban work. Tim& reasonably occupied in travelling is to be-paid for. Provision is made for country work, preference, brushware, sub-letting, and piece-work. In the case "of the last two, piece-work is prohibited, and labour shall not be sub-let. The award operates throughout the Northern, Wellington, Nelson, Canterbury, Otagoand Southland districts, and is, to rejnajn in force from May 19th, 1924, till May 19th, 1926. In a memorandum the Court stated that the question of a half hour lunch at the employers' option had been/con-, sidered, and the clause left, as it'was.j The Court was prepared to alter itrwhen. the next award was made if.it appeared that the clause had been unreasonably acted upon. The suburban work clause had presented considerable difficulty, but the Court had settled it on a basis that appeared to. he fair to both city and .suburban employers and their respective workers.