CITY COUNCIL LABOURERS

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21909, 9 October 1936, Page 6

CITY COUNCIL LABOURERS

INDUSTRIAL AGREEMENT AT AUCKLAND

FORTY-HOUR WEEK GRANTED

(PfiESd ASSOCIATION TELEGKAM./ AUCKLAND, October 8. An agreement drawn up by the Local Bodies Labourers’ Union and the Auckland City Council covering employees of the council was ratified at a meeting of the union at the Trades Hall, which was attended by 520 members.

A 40-hour week and an eight-hour day will now be worked, Saturday work being permitted on essential services (street cleaning, etc.), and men are to work the hours necessary without the payment of overtime, provided it does not mean working more than 40 hours a week or eight hours in one day. The rates of pay will be: General labourers 2s 3d an hour; quarry and scoria pit men and hammer and drill workers, 2s 4d; leading hands, concrete and stone work, 2s sd; gangers and machine drillers, 2s 6d; destructor employees, leading hands 2s 7£d, firemen and chargers, 2s 6d, receivers and refuse handlers, 2s 4£d. The weekly rates for convenience attendants will be £4 for males and £3 for females. A female bath attendant is to be paid £3 and tip men and weigh-bridge attendants £4.

Overtime is to be paid at the rate of time and a half for the first three hours and double time thereafter. Where a worker attends a job but does not work on that day he is to receive two hours’ pay. Any employee called out to do special work is to receive a minimum of 2s 6d. A break of 10 minutes }s to be allowed for morning tea.