New retail award
Most shop assistants will soon be paid double-time for working on Saturdays after settlement of the retail (non-food) award in Christchurch vesterday. The award co-ordinator for the Shoo Employees’ Asociation (Mr R J. Campbeili said that double-time would be paid to casuals and nart-timers as well a< full-time staff, working on Saturdays. T he double-time provision was expected to be conceded by the employers, after it had been provided for in the grocery and
supermarket award last week. At present, shop assistants get paid time-and-a-half until 6.30 p.m.. 1 then double-time until closing on Saturdays. The settlement also provides for a wage increase > which varies from 8.6 per cent to 10.8 per cent, according to grade. This amount was offered by the employers’ assessors at the last conciliation talks before ' they were adjourned. In the interim, the grocery and supermarket award ■ was settled, under the threat of a strike at Christmas.
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Press, 30 November 1978, Page 6
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