SHIPPING CO. EMPLOYEES

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31235, 6 December 1966, Page 17

SHIPPING CO. EMPLOYEES

Increases In Salaries Increases in salaries, overtime rates, and alterations to annual leave provisions have been granted by the Court of Arbitration to workers employed under the New Zealand Shipping Companies' Clerical Employees Award. The terms of the award relating to salaries are retrospective to October 1, and other provisions came into force on November 29. From December 1 the rates in the award are increased by the Court’s 2J per cent general order. The award will remain in force until June 30, 1968. Male workers received salary increases ranging from £ll to £92 a year, the lesser increase being for first-year workers, the higher for six-teenth-year workers. Female workers receive increases ranging from £l4 to £6O a year. Females with more than 12 years’ service with the same employer are to be paid not less than £875 a year—an increase of £5l.

The award provides for every employee in the first 10 years of service to be allowed two weeks’ holiday on full pay a year, with three weeks’ leave on full pay for' those with more than 10 years’ service. A new clause provides that employees who have completed eight years’ service with the same employer are also entitled to three weeks’ annual leave. Overtime rates are increased by from 6d to Is 3d an hour for male workers, and from Is to Is 6d an hour for female workers. Board allowances to junior officers who are transferred have also been increased.

The award incorporates the terms of settlement arrived at by the parties in an inquiry held before a Council of Conciliation.