INDUSTRIAL AGREEMENT

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 193, 9 May 1908, Page 6

INDUSTRIAL AGREEMENT

GENERAL LABOURERS AND NAPIER • - ' CORPORATION. . —' PREFERENCE GRANTED. An industrial agreement between the Wellington General Labourers' Industrial Union of Workers (which'has a branch'in Hawko's Bay) and the' Napier Borough Council has been signed and registered. The following aro' tho principal .clauses in tho scheduler- ■ HOURS OF WORK. . ■ 1. Save as provided- by the next succeeding clauses the hours of work shall bo 47 in each week. _ Each day's work shall commence at such timo as the Corporation-shall, appoint, and shall ceaso at fivo' o'clock in thb afternoon of each day, except on Saturdays, when work shall ceaso : at noon. All work done after tho aforesaid hours shall bo-deemed to be oyortime, and shall be paid for at the raio hereinafter specified. For. tho purpose of calculating the working, hour's m, each week the. several holidays hereinafter provided for shall be deemed to be a working day of eight hours. ;,' ■■■ . 2. -For tunnel work tho hours of work shall be eight hours per shift from bank to bank for. Jivo shifts-a week, including half an hour for meals or, crib time except that on Saturdays the working hours shall bo four. Provided that the overseer- of -the- Corporation shall be at liberty to dispense with tlio services of any worker at any . time during a shift if in. the said overseer's oDinion tho worker is unsuitable for work and. the worker so discharged shall be entitled to payment for so Jong a timo only as lie 'shall'havo actually worked.• 3. No man shall bo renuired : to • work continuously longer than a six hours shift in a wet place'or. in foul air.' A'wet place means ono in which it is necessary that" a workman to perform his. work should , stand in water, over the boot-tops or with water (other than rain) dripping on him. ■ : . WAGES.' . - : ' ' •4. Thb following ; shall, be tho minimum rates of wages' payable to the several classes of workers employed by the ;Corporation Tunnel-men and timber-men, lis. .per shift; all other underground-men, 10s. 6tl. per shift; powder men, Is. od. per hour'; hammer, drilljumper, quarrymcn, spawlers, and crusliormen, Is. 3d. per:hour; platelayers, nidi employed in charge of or as leading hand' ii'i kerbing, channelling, sewer-work, and laying and cleaning drains, Is. 3d. per hour ; asphalt and tar men, Is. lid. per hour; concrete 'workers, Is. per hour ; all other general labour, Is. lJd. per hour. OVERTIME. .. ' ' 5. All time worked after five o'clock in tho afternoon of each working day except Saturdays and after noon on Saturdays and on the holidays hereinafter mentioned shall be deemed to be overtime and shall be paid for as follows:—For the first two hours at tho rate of time and a quarter. > After , the first two hours at. tho rate of timo and a half: on Sundays, Good Friday, and Christmas Day, double time: and on all other of the said holidays at the rate of time and a half. The rate of wages payable as aforesaid for and iii ' respect, of ovortimo shall be :in substitution for and not by way of additon to'the ordinary rate of wages payable during working hours. Thus, for. example, if a labourer whoso ordinary wage is, say Is. ljd. an hour, shall work two hours overtime ho shall received Is. 5d., and no more in: respect of each of tho said two hours,' or if he work on say Christmas Day, ho shall receivo 2s. 3d. an hour as for one working day "of eight hours and no moro. ■ HOLIDAYS.. . The following holidays shall .bo allowed without any stoppage of pay:—New Year's Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Christmas Day, Boxing Day, Labour Day,- Do-' minion Day, and the Sovereign's Birthday. . PREFERENCE. The Corporation shall employ members of tho Union in perferonco to non-Unionists, provided there are- members of tho Union of sober and - trustworthy habits equally qualified in the opinion of tho Corporation with non-members to do tho particular work required to be done and ready and willing' to do it, and provided also that the Union shall carry out and obsorve tho provisions of tho clause in reference to the Keeping and supplying of employment books and lists.