SUGAR WORKERS
NEW AAV ARD FILED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, July 12. The sugar workers’ award, which has just been filed by the Arbitration Court, retains the 44-hour week and overtime at the rate of time and a half for the first three hours, with double time thereafter. • The wages range from £4 to £5 per week. In a. memorandum tho Court stated that the existing award had been slightly modified and as the wages were slightly under the rates ior similar work, it increased the bonus by 2s. all. round. The request by the company to increase the hours of 'firemen engaged in charburning without payment of overtime had been refused as only one fireman was affected per week, and the Court was of opinion that overtime should be paid if tho company reaped the benefit of a- larger output. It had been, asserted by the union last year that the production in 48 hours would be maintained in a. 44-hour week. Tho evidence showed that this was not maintained, but as thete was reason to believe that circumstances beyond tho control of the workers may have had a bearing on the result the system would be given, ther trial. The currency of the award is two rears.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 247, 13 July 1921, Page 5
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209SUGAR WORKERS Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 247, 13 July 1921, Page 5
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