DAIRY FACTORY WORKERS
Wage Increase Granted The minimum award rates for the various classifications of workers in factories making butter, cheese, milkpowder, caseins etc., have been increased by 3s 5d to 4s a week under a new award for New Zealand dairy factory employees. The new rates, which incorporate the 24 per cent, wage increase, will come into force on December 16. Workers will now be paid a minimum of six hours at time and a half rates for Saturday work and six hours at double time for Sunday work except for three months each year, between April 15 and July 15, when the minimum payment will be for four hours. Before the new award the minimum time for week-end work was four hours throughout the year. The new award provided that where it is not practicable for the employer to have overalls laundered arrangements can be made to pay employees 6s each week as laundry allowance if they clean them at home. A light cotton boiler suit and hood will be supplied free to workers cleaning inside Rogers driers in milk powder factories.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29992, 29 November 1962, Page 17
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