AMENDMENTS TO AWARDS

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25271, 25 August 1947, Page 3

AMENDMENTS TO AWARDS

increase in wage RATES Giving effect to the standard wage pronouncement made by the Arbitration Court on August 15, the Court Jjas issued amendments to eight awards in terms of the pronounceinent. The minimum wage for furniture workers has been increased to 3s 7d an hour, for wire mattress makers to 3s old. and for spring workers and spring-seat-form makers to 3s 2Jd. 'Workers over 21 will receive not less than 3s 2d for any unskilled work.: Youths under 16 will start at 22s 6d with half-yearly increases to £4 13s at the end of the fifth year. Male boot repairers are to receive I 3s 7d an hour or may enter an agree- , ment for a weekly wage of £6 17s 6d.; Adult females are to receive £5 7s a week. Aerated water workers' rates are:— working foreman. £6 17s 6d a week; • cordial and syrup makers, • £6 12s 3d; I bottlers and casemakers, £6 4s sd; ' ;others. £6 Is 9d. Casuals will,receive ■2s 31d an hour. Women’s rates rise • from 26s a week under 16 to £3l 15s 6d. I In the New Zealand (except north-I ern industrial district) Retail Shop Assistants’ Award, assistants 23 years of age and over are to receive £7 4s for males and £4 15s for females each week. In the New Zealand (except Otago and Southland) Carpenters and Joiners' Award, the Court prescribes that the minimum wage for workers covered by the award shall be 3s 7d an hour. In the New Zealand (except Otago and Southland) Lime Workers’ Award the new hourly rates range from 3s 2d to 3s 5?-d. Foremen will receive Is 6s a day extra, leading hands in charge of four or more workers. Is a day extra, and workers employed unloading and trimming coal Id an hour extra. Rates for adult male workers covered by the Northern, Wellington, Canterbury. and Otago and Southland Brush and Broom Trade Employees’ Award range from 3s lid an hour to 3s 7d. Junior male workers will receive £1 5s a week for the first six months, rising to £4 8s at the end of the tenth six month. After that they will be paid wages prescribed for adult male workers. A proportion of one junior to three journeymen or fraction of three journeymen in certain classes will be allowed. Female workers under 16 years of age will receive 24s 6d a week for the .first six months, , rising to 61s 6d at the end of the * seventh six months. Other commencing rates range from 29s 6d for workers between the age of 16 and 17 years in the first six months, rising to 61s 6d at the end of the sixth six months, to 50s 6d for those between the ages of 20 and 21 years in the first six months to 60s 6d in the second six months. , After that the prescribed rate is £3 18s 2d a week. In the Canterbury Storemen and Backers’ Award storemen and packers over the age of 21 years will be paid not less than £6 10s 6d a week. In stores where one storeman is employed and he is solely responsible for inward and outward goods he will be paid not less than £6 13s 2d a week. A head storeman is a storeman employed regularly in charge of other workers. If in charge of two or more workers, other than casuals-, and up to five such workers, he will be paid 10s a week extra: if in charge of more than five, the extra rate will be £1 a week. Permission 'is given for youths to be employed at rates not less than £1 Ils 6d a week for those under 16 years of age, rising to £4 13s for those between the ages of 20 and 21 years. Workers employed for less than one week shall be deemed to be casuals and shall be paid not less than 3s 4£d an hour. When casual labour is employed a minimum of four hours wages will be paid. The new rates start on October 1.