SUGAR WORKERS
NEW AWARD FILED. By Tciograph.—Press Association. Auckland, July 12. The sugar workers’ award, which has just been filed by the Arbitration Court, retains the 44-h.our 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 315 per week. In a. memorandum the Court stated that the -existing award had been slightly modified and as the wages were slightly under the rates for similar work, it increased tho bonus by 2s. all round. Tho request by tho company to increase the hours of firemen engaged in charburning without payment of overtime had been refused os only one fireman was affected per week, and the Court was of opinion that overtime should be paid if the company reaped tho benefit of a larger output. It had been asserted by tho union last year that the production in 48 hours would l>p maintained in a +4-hour week. The evidence showed that this was not maintained, but as there was reason to believe that circumstances beyond the control of the workers may have had a bearing on the result the system would be given a further trial. Tho currency of the award two years.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 248, 14 July 1921, Page 5
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