NEW AWARD ISSUED

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 37, 7 November 1933, Page 6

NEW AWARD ISSUED

. V . ■ ' i, Builders and Contractors POVERTY BAY DISTRICT A’ >■ ■ < '’■■' ' ;In consequence of a recommendation to the Court of Arbitration for •Jifie settlement of a dispute heard by. a Council in Gisborne .on /September 27, 1933, the Poverty Bay *■ Builders’, Contractors’ and general 'Labourers’' and Quarry Workers Award has now been issued. 1 “The recommendation was complete, ' except for the under-rate workers •/clause, aa-to, which it was stated that /tie Court’s usual’ clause would be acceptable, to the parties,’ says Mr. Jus- ' tieA Frazer in a..memorandum. < ,lhe 'substantial queWn for’the Court was whether the Cook and Waikohu County Councils should be included n the list of parties. The citation, which was issued on the application of the employers, did not include their names, and they were not served with copies, nor did the respondent union serve them with notice, of an application to join them as parties. A reference to ■special conditions ' for county employees, contained in the schedules of claims'and counter-proposals, does not affect the position of the two county x. councils, for they were neither cited, nor were they given notice of the ap- !■ ; plication, to join them as parties to the They are therefore: in no way ndrties to . the proceedings, and must • J.be struck out.” ’. When the dispute was called, an application (of an adjournment had been ■• made by the advocate, for the respondent union on the grounds that, while / -he had consented, to the hearing of the in Wellington, he had not obtained a formal ratification from the /’/union... However .the, Court had decided.’Mn Justice'Frazer said, that as the union had not notified it of any , disagreement with its advocate’s action and had merely omitted the ratification, there could be no reason for delaying the making of the award. “None of the terms of the recom- / mendations were dissented from,” the te memorandum concludes, “and the sole pi'matter in dispute was the joinder of the two county councils. The award ■' has accordingly been made, and it Is. open to the union to apply later, if it wishes to do. so, for the adding of the county councils as parties.” The schedule of the award specifies that in general the week’s work shall not exceed 44 hours and that the work done shall not exceed 8i hours on five days of the week. and 4J hours on : : Saturday. In tunnel work the hours A'sliail not excOcd'eight per shift~With A; half an hour for crib time, and in wet ; places or foul air six hours shall conAstitute a day’s work. ; ' Minimum'wages for tunnel men and ■' 'timber men are'set down at l/10i an “hour, for ■ certified men using explosives in quarry work 1/9, other "quarry workers and general labourers 1/71, and asphalt and tar workers 1/B}. Overtime is to be paid at the rate of time and a quarter for the first four hours and time and a half thereafter. For work done on Sundays, Anzac Day, Good Friday or Christmas Day double rate shall be paid; and on' Boxing Day, New Year’s Day, Easter Saturday, Easter Monday and Labour Day time and a half rate shall be paid.