Bonus for attendance
Workers in a Christchurch factory making polypropylene bags will get an attendance bonus of $12.50 for every week they work without absence, as a result of a settlement of an industrial dispute. The dispute arose when the company, Polypropylene Products, Ltd, owned by Donaghys Industries, of Dunedin, proposed a change in the shift system which workers said would deprive them of penal payments amounting to up to $43 a week.
A mediator, Mr T. Skinner, of Auckland, heard the dispute. According to the secretary of the Woollen Workers’ Union (Mr D. Shenker) the staff will have to work the new shift system, bu those who do not want to change will receive redundancy payments, and those who accept will get an attendance bonus of $12.50 for an absence-free week and a production bonus.-
He said that between 15 and 20 workers of the staff of 60 might become redundant.
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Press, 2 December 1978, Page 23
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