ARBITRATION COURT.
*, ', GROCERS' AWARD. Tlie Wcstland Grocers' Assistants'' Award was yesterday mado by the Arbitration Court, as between P. Beck and Co., grocers, Grcymouth, and other employers, and the Wcstland Retail Shop Assistants' Industrial Union of Workers. The award provides lor a 48-hour week, and a wago scale ranging up to £1 5s fid for workers in their eighth year and thereafter. Tho ordinary overtime rate is time and a half, with double time for work on certain specified holidays. Tho number of juniors in any shop is not to exceed two to tho lirst senior, and one additional junior to each additional senior, provided that for every five seniors one additional junior may be employed. Casual hands are to be paid 20 per cent, in addition tn tho rate prescribed in tho wages clause, or at any hourly rate equivalent thereto, with a minimum payment of Is an hour.
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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20734, 20 December 1932, Page 8
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