ARBITRATION COURT

Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 172, 9 April 1923, Page 4

ARBITRATION COURT

METAL WORKERS’ AWARD. Before the members of the Arbitration Court left Wellington for Auckland on Satlrday, tho award in the metal workers’ dispute was filed. Wages, Is. lli?<l. per hour, to bo paid weekly. Overtime, time and a half for tho first four hours, double time thereafter; Is. fid. extra pc’r day is stipulated for defined “dirty work.” Hours. —Forty-four weekly, eight hours each on five days and four on Saturday, io bo worked between 7.30 a.m. and 5 p.m. on five days and 7.30 a.m. and noon on Saturdays 'rhe award covers blacksmiths’ strikers, engineers’, hoilermkers’, and moulders’ assistants, machinjfits not covered by any other award, rangefitters and assemblers, furnacemen. and labourers assisting in structural steel manufactures. The Court has struck out a number of employers cited to whoso business the award would not he applicable. In the event of a supplementary award being made for them or their workers, the power redefine machinists is reserved, as the present clause 14 would ho too wide if another award applying to them were made. Any employee required to work in any space where tho heat exceeds 110 deg. Farenheit is to be paid double the ordinary rate, provision being made for safeguards to workers’ health. , .