HAWKE'S BAY CARPENTERS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 615, 18 September 1909, Page 15

HAWKE'S BAY CARPENTERS.

I TERMS OF PROPOSED AWARD As tho result of the recent visit to Napior made by Mr. P. Hally, Conciliation Comi missioner, on agreement lias been filed between i the Amalgamated. Society of: Oarpeatcrs' and, JoJnorb' Industrial Uniou of Workers, Napier >- nnd Hastings Branches, and a large number of > the s emp.loy9t3. AppUcMion is being mado to ) hiiTf the corwhtiona of the agieement embodied in an award of tho Arbitration Court. The, agieemeni pr.Qvulo.4 that th,e hours ot I labour shall be 4o per ™k' Tho time for > commencing and. Jearing off work daily shall 1 be. mutually arranged between, the omployof * and Uis between tha hour,s, i)< 730 ' a in. and 5 p.m, provided that tho work' shall ' s ceaso at not later £h,an noon on, Saturdays. All journeymen carpeuters» op jaurnejmen ' and, joiners, shall be paid at a * minimum rate of It Id. per hour. Except ' in respect Qf. stair-building, m? carpenter; or 1 joiner shall bo. paid by piecework. Overtime 1 shall be paid for as follows —For, the two 1 hours, tiuw and a quarter, after the hrst tvo " 'houjt, untilf-lO t>.lrm<tiroft'and'B)half, Uolneon * IQ-p m. ailiF/.BO ,^ Jifsmwt'Tffl'rnlng, if Horkod ' cdntiauoU«ly,'' , «Wimo. o nerH A ' t lt tlft'fforkßtan is * rctpnred to cpmmewe work after 6 am, but ' before 730 he ihall bo paid time aud a quarter i -for work before 730 a jn -AYork done on Christmas Day, Good Enday, New Ycai's Day, Easter ' Monday, Labour Dav, and Sundays shall be I paid, {oc at tltf rato" of double tiin*. If any , of tho kohaajs fall on, a Sunday, then tho { succeeding day shall bo observed. Provision is made for tha gianting of. underj xafe permits to men ivho dia deemed to bo inj capaWo of earning- the full wage. Thoro are ! tlausee relative to the employment of youths, » the keoping of an employment book and wages t books, preference to unionists, and allowances r to bo. paid to -workmen travelling to their work. "SuQurbar. *ork"' means work performed by i, a. journeyman or apprentico at a distance oi » over two of less than six miles from his em-. i foyer's place of business. When engaged-on ) country work, omplojeeu shall be provided with f suitable sleeping accommodation by their enij i ployers. Whon men wha ha\o been employed p for not Uss than one week aio discharged, 9, on» hour shall be allowed them in to - put their tools in order, and, if emplojcd fox 3 Wα weeks, tivo Jiours shall be allowed. " t If apprentice? arc to learn one branch of tho trade only, tho period of appienticeshlp shall ) be four years; jf to lourn more than ono ■■ branch, it shall bo five yeais -Any employer 5 shall be entitled to take a boy for three months 6 on probation, and, if at the wl oi this proS batien foe. becomes a bound apprentice, the ? probationary period shall ba reckoned as part, t of th* period of apprenhceslup. The wages to l be paid to apprentices sllall be. First year, s not less than ss. per week, second year, not * lest than Ids.; third year, not less than 15s.j 5 foutth, ycai', nof! less than ■£!< hfth year, no); I than ss. No employer, shall eArioy II moro than one apprentice to every three fully- '■ paid j'o.urnoyme» i Contracts in ctistenco or tenders for any 1 work in hand at the coming into operation of. the agreement (.hall not be subject to those I conditions, and shall to carried out under the terms of the previous award Tho period of dperntion ot tho agreomont ospircs on July 31, 1910,