PLASTERERS DISPUTE SETTLEMENT ARRIVED AT.
With reference to the Plasterers' dispute before the Conciliation Council, a full agreement has been arrived at. It has been decided to recommend that the week's work ahall consist of .45 • hours (44 wero askod). A definition of "work" satisfactory to all parties concerned hat' been agreed upon, aoid on lines exactly similar to the old award. Wages are to be paid weekly on the job or at the employer's place of business within 15 minutes after ceasing work. With regard to suburban work, the Council decided to recommend that a clause similar to that in the carpenters' award should ap- | ply, and that the" actual travelling tinio occupied on a railway journey should be paid for, in addition to the fare. A preference clause, similar to that in the carpenters' award, ,was agreed tp. A committee was set up to deal with any point that might arise in dispute iii future between employers and employees. The Council further recommended that the agreement shall expire at the same time as the carpenters' award, so as , to j obtain, if possible, a 44-hours' week Li future for men engaged in the building trades.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 74, 27 March 1912, Page 8
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