ARBITRATION COURT

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 23, 22 October 1918, Page 9

ARBITRATION COURT

AWARDS FILED CONDITIONS IN LEATHER TRADES The Arbitration Court has filed awards in several industrial disputes. In the eaeo Of fcllfl Wellington saddlers' dispute the aivai'd prescribes 43 hours a week for male workers, and oil Saturdays'work to cease at noon in Wellington and suburbs and Petone and Lower Hufct. In other parts of the industrial district work to coase at noon on one day in each week. Only four classes of workers aro to bo recognised, namely, journeymen, machinists, female stitchers, and apprentices. Journeymen aro to receive Is. Gd. per hour, and all wages aro to be paid weekly and one. week's notice to be Riven on either side of'termination of agreement. Overtime for the first threa hours up to 9 p.m., time and a quarter; up to'midnight, time, and a half; afterwards, double time. Time and a half to bo paid for work done on Saturday afternoons or on tho day set apart for the weekly halfholiday. Any employer may arrange with all or any of his workers to V"rk piecework, at rates to he mutually agreea. Provision is made for underrate workers. In respect to apprentices the award provides that for the first year 12s. 6d. per week shall bo paid; for the second year 17s. Gd., for the third year 225. 6d., for the fourth year 305., and for the fifth year 40s. The period of apprenticeshiD is to bo five years, but three months' probation is to be allowed the first employer of nny apprentice to determine his fitness, such three months to bo included in the apprenticeship. The proportion of apprentices and female stitchers to journeymen is fixed at one apprentice and one female stitcher to every three journeymen or fraction of ' three journeymen in the saddlery branch, and three journeymen, or two apprentices and every threo journeymen in tho maclmlfl branch, and the same in tho harness branch. In the collar-making branch' the proportion is one apprentice to one journeyman or two apprentices to two journeymen, and in the bridlc-cuttine branch one apprentice and two female Btitchers to three journeymen, or one apprentice, and four female stitchers to three journeymen, or two apprentices and five female stitchers to four .journeymen, and one female stitchor to every additional journeyman. Bag and trunk makers to have one apprentice to each journeyman, male or 'female. Female stitchers and machinists aro to receiyq a minimum weekly wage of 10s. per week for the first vear; 15s. for the second year; 20s. for the third vear; 275. Gd. for 'the fourth year; 32*. Od. for the fifth year 1 ; and not less than 425. Gd. thereafter. The holidavs to be recognised in all branches are New Tear's Bay. Anniversary Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, the Sovereign's Birthday, Labour. Day. Christmas Day, and Boxing Day. Preference of employment to unionists is granted. The award comes into force on November I, 1918, and remains in force for, two years.

STOEEMBN'S AWARD,

In the "Wellington united store-men b award it is provided that an ordinary week's work shall consist of from 1-1 to 4S hours, according to the custom provailing in the various establishments oi tho parties. Overtime worked by storemen, and packers is to bo paid for at at the rate of time and a half. An ordinary day's work is not to exceed nine, hours. Storemen and packers over the age of 21 substantially employed as such, it in charge of two or more men, other than casuals, aTe to bo paid £Sl 10s.' per week; storemen or packers, .£3 per week; junior storemen under 17 years of age, 20s. per week; 17 to 18 years, 255.; 18 to 19 years, 305.; 19 to 20 vears, 355.; 20 to 21 years, m.; and thereafter tho minimum wage. A war bonus of 10 per cent, is also provided. The proportion of juniors to adult workers-is-not to exceed one to. three. Workers employed for less than one week are to be deemed casual workers, and are to" bo paid not less than Is. Gd. per hour. Tho recognised Holidays aro New Years Day and the day following, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Anniversary Day, the Sovereign's Birthday, Labour Day, Christmas Day, and Boxing Day. Any work done on Sundays, Christmas Day, or 'Good Friday is to bo paid for at 'double time rates, and on other holidays at time and a half rates. One hour is allowed for meals. ■ There is the usual •provision for under-ratc workers. Storemen and packers engaged in mixing manures arc-to receive twopence per hour in addition to the ordinary wage. Preference of employment is granted to unionists, and the award, which comes into force on November i, is, to have a currency of two years, and its operation 'is limited to the city of Wellington and tho area lying within a radius of twentyrive miles of the Chief Post Office, Wellington.

N.Z. FEDERATED BOOT. TEADE. In the award in the New Zealand federated boot trade preference of employment is granted to unionists, subject to certain conditions to provide _ for tho shortage of labour during war time. The regular hours' of work are to be between 7.30 a.m. and 5.30 p.m. on five days of the week, aiid 7.30 a.m. and 11.45 a.m. on tho recognised factory holiday. The minimum wage for females is fixed at 355. per week, computed by the hour. For hot-wax-thread machinists the wage is •.425. 6d. per week'. No.application for a, war bonus is to be made during the.currency of. tho award.. An ordinary week's work is to consist of forty-five hours, and all time worked in excess is ( to bo, deemed overtime,. and' to be paid'for at the rate of time and a-quarter for the first two hours and time and a half afterwards.' The bjolidays are to be Christmas Day, New ' Year's Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, and the Sovereign's Birthday, work on Sundays, and the holidays named abovo to bo paid for at double rates. Assistants—females who hflvo not been employed for more than five to receive 10s. per week for the first year, 13s. for the second year, 16s. for the third year, 19s. for the fourth year, and 235. for tho fifth year. Tho award, which is a.' Dominion one, comes into force on November 8, and continues in force for two years. The parties reached a complete agreement without going before the Arbitration Court. In ;rcspect.to maje workers the terms ore practically the same as above, except that the wages are to bo not less than Is. Cd. per hour. Provision is made for the employment of unskilled labour nnd for under-rato workers. Tho number of apprentices to be employed is not to exceed on to every three journeymen, and the wages of apprentices run from 10s. per week for the first six months to' 325. Gd. for the closing half of the fifth year,' by half-yearly increments.