FREEZING AND CLUE INDUSTRIES

Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23818, 11 December 1942, Page 7

FREEZING AND CLUE INDUSTRIES

electrical workers

The only question referred to the Arbitration 'court for settlement in me Marlboroir’h, Nelson, Westland, and Canterbury'” electrical workers' award was that relating to dirty work payments in freezing and glue works. The Court has •ettlcd Hus question by the addition of the following in the dirt-maney clause; Dirt-monev at the same rate (of Is 6d •ft hour, shall also be paid to electrical

workers required to overhaul the motors, starters, switches, or any other electrical equipment which may be used to drive individually th<? following machines, except where the said motors, etc., are effectively shielded or protected from accumulations of dirt, dust, or filth: Glue crushers, bone crushers, jelly crushers, and hide cutters in glu.e works; and blood pumps, sewage pump£, hash presses, digesters, and paunch cutters in freezing works: provided, however, that dirtmoney shall not be payable in respect of regular minor maintenance and adjustments on the aforementioned equipment, such as the replacement of fuses and the checking over of contacts. Other worki

such as dirty installation work or dirty demolition work, which may be agreed upon as coming under the term “dirty work," shall be paid for at the same rate.