GROCERS’ AWARD

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 250, 21 July 1942, Page 2

GROCERS’ AWARD

More Junior Assistants A new award made by the Court of Arbitration for retail grocers’ assistants mid drivers in the northern (except Gisborne) industrial district brings conditions of employment in Auckland subsi antially into tine with the terms of the Dominion award (excepting Taranaki and Auckland) issued in January. Youths starting under 16 years of age, who formerly received 18/6, are to receive £1 in their first half-year, with halfyearly and yearly increments, till the maximum of £5/5/- is reached in the sixth year of service or at the age of 21, instead of in the eighth year or at the age of 23, as in the previous award, lhe maximum rate, £.7/5/-, is 2/6 higher. The wages of branch managers or workers in charge are increased by 2/6 to £5/15/-. The change iu the proportion of juniors to seniors is substantial, lhe former provision was one youth and one* junior to the first three or fraction of three seniors. In the new clause, the differentiation between youths aud juniors ceases. It reads: “lhe propottion of juniors shall be two juniors to the first two or fraction of two senior assistants, one additional junior for the next two or fraction of two seniors, one additional junior for the next three or fraction of three seniors, and thereafter an additional junior for every three seniors.” A junior is defined a* a worker Ti receipt of less than the wage prescribed (or a senior. , . All wages are subject to the addition Gt the two cost-of-living increases declared bv the Court. Senior assistnuts are to have a holiday of seven working diivs instead of one week, lhe award comes into effect this week for a period ot one year. .