WAGES AND HOURS OF WORK
WOMEN’S HAIRDRESSERS’ DISPUTE Hours of work and wages were settled at the hearing in Conciliation 1 Council yesterday of the North Can-
tefbury women’s hairdressers’ dispute. The dispute, in which the employers were the applicants, had been first heard in the council on January 11. Mr S. Ritchie, Conciliation Commissioner, presided. The employers’ assessors Were Mr J. Olds, Mrs G. Harrison, Messrs D. H. Beattie, and D. I. Macdonald. The employees’ assessors were Messrs H. Hopkirk, G. H. Parkin, and J. S. Barnett. It was agreed that there should be a 44-hour week, worked on five and a half days. The rates of wages to be as follows:—Apprentices, 15s a
week (commencing rate) to 40s a week; learners. 17s 6d a week to ® a week; improvers, 57s 6d a wees «» 67s 6d a week; journeymen. £3 las a week; casuals. 2s 3d an hour; attendants. £1 a week or Is 9d so hour. ___
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22445, 5 July 1938, Page 6
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