METAL TRADES

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 72, 17 December 1938, Page 13

METAL TRADES

New Award Issued By Mr. J. A. Gilmour, S.M.

An award which for the first time brings almost all workers in metal trades in the Dominion under its scope has been issued by Mr. J. xL Gilmour, S.M. if is the Combined Districts Metal Trades Award and the hearing was taken in Wellington by Mr. Gilmour. The only matters in dispute related to exemptions, agreement being reached in the conciliation proceedings between the panties on almost all major points.

Th memorandum of the magistrate stated:

“The principal mutters in dispute related to the inclusion of painters and woodworkers employed in connexion with the engineering industry, dirty work, and exemptions. Painters and woodworkers have been omitted from the list of workers set out in clause 1, (industry to which the award applies) as the rules of the workers, organizations do not appear to be sufficiently wide in their scope to cover them. As to the dirty work clause, this has been settled by making special provision for workers employed on certain work in freezing works and manure works. "The exemptions have been settled much on the lines of the expired Engineers’ Award except that provision has been made for an annual holiday of a fortnight on full pay for workers engaged in servicing petrol pumps, shearing machinery and milking machines. .Some employers are already granting these workers a fortnight’s holiday and it is thought that all the employers concerned should be placed unon the same footing.” A clause in previous awards permitting the Colonial Sugar Refining Coy Ltd., to ernploj' engineers on regular shifts on payment of 1/- a shift in addition to the ordinary rates of wages, was re-inserted in the present award.