MOTOR-BODY BUILDERS

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20026, 6 September 1930, Page 5

MOTOR-BODY BUILDERS

NEW AWARD FILED. (jBSSB ASSOCIATION TZLEOBAII-) WELLINGTON. September 5. The coachworkers' and motor body builders' new award, which was issued by "tho Arbitration Court to-day, does not materially depart from the provisions of the expired award, except in regard to assemblers and machinists. The new award, provides that 47 hours Rhall constituto an ordinary week's work and shall bo worked between the hours of 7.30 a.m. and 5.30 p.m. on five days of the week, and between 7.30 a.m. and noon on one day of the week. Wages ghall be paid on an hourly basis. The wages of journeymen shall be not less than 2s 3d per hour. The minimum wage for helpers rises from £1 2s 6d per week to £2 17s 6d per week. The. wage for helpers over 21 years of age is Is lOd per hour. Extra helpers above the number specified may be taken on at not less than Is lOd an hour. The minimum wage for assemblers shall bo as follows:—For first year, Is lid per hour, and thereafter 2s Id pei hour. Employers may in factories within the Wellington industrial district where mass production is carried on employ learner assemblers in the trimming shop, who shall be permitted, to tack in trimming materials at tho following wages: For first Bix months, Js lid an hour; second six months, 2s Id an hour; thereafter, 2s 3d.au hour. In a memorandum to the award, Mr .Tustico Frazer savs: "In the present case a coach and motor-body panelboater is regarded as a coachworker, not a 8 a sheet-metal worker in the Rime way as a cabinetmaker is regarded as a furniture worker, not as acarpenter. though he works in wood. In anv event, the lapse of time since 1995 renders it impossible for the claim of the Amalgamated Engineering Association to succeed on legal grounds."