SHEARERS' AWARD

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20977, 4 October 1933, Page 14

SHEARERS' AWARD

DETAILS OF RATES- OF PAY . "COURT'S RECENT-: DECISION' Sheep farmers-will be. interested in the new schedule of working conditions and rates of pay for shearers and shed hands, whose work is covered by the new Arbitration Court award -for the 1033-34 to 1935-36: seasons, inclusive. These awards were recently affirmed by Mr Justice Frazer, and for the 1935-36 season are to be adjusted in accordance with the movement of "wool prices, which shall be determined by the Government statistician's index numbers for export prices of woo!. The rates of pay for shearers during the coming season have been resolved as. follows:—, . The rate for shearing by hand shall not be less.:-than 18s a 100, with rations. The rate, for shearing by machine shall not be less than 18s a 100, with rations. The rate for shearing lambs'shall not the less than 18s a 100, with rations. In cases where the shearers find themselves in rations, these rates shall be increased by 5s a 100. The rate for stud sheep shall be settled by agreement between the employer and the shearer employed to do the work. The Tate for shearing hogget rams shall be rate and a half, and for other rams double ordinary rate. The rates of pay for shed hands employed during the coming season are shown below:— (a)'Pressers: By the week, £2 ss; by the hour, Is 3d. (b) All other shed hands: By. the week, £2; by the hour. Is Id. (c) Youths (over 16 years and under 18 years of age): By the week, £1 ss; by the hour, 9d. (d) Cooks: For 12 men or under, at the rate of £2 16s a week, or- 10s a day if employed for less than seven. days. (Where over 12 men are employed . the wages shall be by agreement between the employer and the worker, but not in any case less than the said minimum of £2 16s a week.) (e) Cook's assistants: At the rate of £2 5s a week; or 8s a day if employed for less than seven days. (f) A presser may work at a piecework rate to be agreed on with his employer, but so that he shall in any event be paid not less than the minimum hourly rates herein specified for the time actually worked by him. (g) Each worker shall be provided with rations by his employer. In any case where it is agreed between the employer and the worker that the worker shall provide his own rations, he shall be paid £1 a week in addition to the rates hereinbefore prescribed.