WOOLLEN MILLS WORKS

Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28414, 22 October 1957, Page 15

WOOLLEN MILLS WORKS

Award Issued Junior workers in Canterbury and Westland woollen mills and hosiery factories have been granted a wage increase of 2s 6d a week in a new award issued by the Court of Arbitration. The award is retrospectve to July 1.

There are .no wage increases for adult men, but senior women who have served for four years or more have been given an increase of $d an hour. The same increase in the hourly rate has also been awarded to male workers aged between 18 and 21. A new provision is that after 10 years’ continuous employment with one employer, instead of an extra week’s holiday, male workers shall be granted a service allowance of Is a day and female workers 6d a day.

A memorandum to the award says that the only matter in the award which was not settled by the conciliation council was the provision that workers may be employed for up to five hours before a meal break is taken where a rest interval of not less than 10 minutes is allowed in every working period of up to three hours.

The award applies to the manufacture of all woven, felted (other than needle felt), and machine-knitted fabrics and hoisery produced from wool, silk, nylon, rayon or other man-made fibres, cotton, or mixtures of these, and jute or hemp (other than rope).