INDUSTRIAL AWARDS

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 232, 25 June 1921, Page 10

INDUSTRIAL AWARDS

WELLINGTON DRIVERS’ WAGES

AMENDMENTS TO COUNTRY CARPENTERS’ AWARD

The Wellington district motor-car, horse drivers, and stable attendants' award has been filed in the Arbitration Court. Its application excludes the Wanganui and Rangitikei districts, Napier, and Hastings. The award embodies the recommendations of a conciliation council, which were accepted by the parties. Hour's of work are fixed at 48 a week, exclusive of time required for necessary attendance on horses and motor-vehicles. Overtime is to lie paid for work done over 9 hours iu one day, and attendance ivork, and for work done before 7 a.m., and after 7 p.m., on week days; and after 12.30 p.m. on the day of the weekly halfholiday. Employers are empowered to make special arrangements with drivers for attendance at early and lato trains and steamers, for collection of mails or parcels, for jobs at meat works, abattoirs, stone quarries, for. sand and gravel carting, night soil removing, municipal scavenging, cream carting, provided that the weekly and daily ivorking limits are adhered to. Drivers employed by aerated water and cordial makers are to work 52 hours a week, from November 1 to April 30, and 54 a week from May 1 to October 31. Hours of work for extra drivers between the dates first named are to be 48.

Wages are fixed as follow:—Driving and attending one horse, X 3 15s. a week; driving and attending two horses, .£3 17s. 6d. a week; driving and attending to motor-vehicles (scivt. to one ton), .£3 18s. a week; driving and attending to motor-vehicles (1 to 2 tons), £4 os. 6d. a week; driving and attending to motorvehicles (2 to 3 tons), A 4 os. a peek; driving and attending to motor-vehicles (over 3 tons), .€4 6s. 6d. a week. The above rates are to be increased by 10s. a week, as bonus. Stable work and garage work, in excess of the hours of work, up to 4 hours a week in the case of horse drivers, and eight hours for. - borse drivers, shall be paid for at Is. 7d. an hour; attendance on motor-vehicles, up to 4 hours a week, to lie paid for at Is. Bd. an hour. Excess of these hours is to be paid for at overtime rates. Youths mav be employed in stables at the rate of Is. 3d. an hour, and the award provides for the employment of a stable-cleaner and food-mixer. Casual drivers are to he paid Is. lid., an hour (one horse) and 2s. Id. an hour (two horses). Overtime is fixed for casuals at 3s. an hour, after 9| hours, and after 12.30 p.m. on the weekly half-holiday. Casual motor drivers are to be paid 2s. Id. an hour (sewt. to 2-ton vehicles), and 2s. 3d. an hour (vehicles over 2 tons), nnd overtime at the rate of 3s. 3d. an hour, as in tho case of team drivers. Casual motor drivers are to ’be paid 4s. an hour overtime on ‘Sunday, Christmas Dav, and Good Friday. Wages for youths are fixed as follow: —lB to 19 years of age, Jl2 a week: 19 to 20, £2 Gs. a week; 20 to 21 years, Ji2 14s. a week. Bakers’ youths (drivers) are to be paid as follows-.—Under 18, JCI Is. 6d. a week and found, or 14s. ordinary pay; 18 to 19, XI 7s. 6d. and found, or £2 dry pay; 19 to 20. XI Ils. a week and found, or X2 6s. dry pay; 20 to 21, XI 19s. a week and found, or X2 IU. dry pay. A bonus of ss. a week is to lie added to the rates. Youths’ overtime rates are fixed at Is. Gid. an hour. Work done on Sunday, Christmas Day, and Good Friday is io be paid for at 3s. Id. an hour, other holidays at 2s. 3d. an hour. Overtime for drivers is fixed as follows:—Horse drivers, 2s. 3d. an hour (between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. 35.); motordrivers, 2s. 4d. (up to 2-ton vehicles), over 2 tons 2s. 6d. (35.). After Jen hour a minimum of 2 hours’ pay is to be given. The award will not apply to farm, station, or orchard work, livery stable’, coach, bus, or cab proprietors, medical men, or dairymen, country sawmillers. The award will operate as from March 17, 1921, for a period of one year.

PALMERSTON NORTH CARPENTERS

AND JOINED S

An award filed for the Palmerston North carpenters and joiners, which embodies a conciliation council’s recommendations, agreed to on January 25, 1921, will come into force as from November 1. 1920, and remain in. force until May 24, 1922. It is limited in operation to the portion of the AA’ellington industrial district lying south of the Rangitikei River and outside a radius of 50 miles from the General Post Office, Wellington, the Ruahine and Tararuas Range on the east ride, and the sea coast on the west side. It provides for a 44liour week, a minimum wage of 2s. an hour, with a Ixmus of 3|d. an hour. MANAWATU BUTCHERS. Amendments are made to the Manawatu District Operative Butchers’ Award. The amending order provides that the present rates shall be increased by a bonus of 9s. a week (clause 2) and 6s. a week in clause 4. Hours of work are fixed at 48, a week to be worked between the hours of 7 a.m. and 4.30 p.m. on four dnvs of the week, and between ths hours of 7 a.m. and noon on one day; and between 7 a.m. and .5 p.m. on the other day. One hour a day is +o bo allowed for dinner, on five days of the week, between 12 and 2 p.m. For the purpose of calculating the hours of work on the statutory holidays, a day s work is fixed at 81 hours. Overtime is to ho paid at the rate, of time and a half for the first three hours and double time thereafter. The award will come into operation on July 1. WAIRARAPA BUTCHERS. ■Several amendments are made in the Wairarapa district operative butchers award Bonuses are allowed as in the case of the Palmerston (Manawatu) award, and a 48-hour week is prescribed Overtime is to be paid for at the rate of time and a half for the first three hours, jind thereafter double time. The amendment will fake effect from July 1. 1921.

IVHOT/ESAI.E STOREMEN AND PACKERS.

An award ha’ been filed in the wholeBa l P storemen :md packers’ dispute (pptside 25 mile’ railin’). In a memorandum. the Court states that the award embodies in the main the 1-ion« of a conciliation conned, wlitch 10 Mn.’terton and Wanganui parties a?1 -ced to accept. Certain minor nlteraions have U’en made in order to make (he award applicable lo the whole district The award will come into effect as from June 27. 1921, and continue until Juno 13, Ift-fi-