BRICKLAYERS DISPUTE BEFORE CONCILIATION COUNCIL

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 118, 20 May 1914, Page 8

BRICKLAYERS DISPUTE BEFORE CONCILIATION COUNCIL

SEVERAL CLAUSES AGREED TO. The hearing of the dispute between the Wellington branch of the Now Zealand Federated Bricklayers' Industrial Union of Workers and the employers in the Wellington district was continued before Mr. P. Hally, Commissioner, today, and proceedings terminated at 2 p.m., after several clauses were agreed to. The employers' a-ssessors wers Messrs. W. Ferguson, W. H. Bennett, and A. M. Wilson, with Mr. W. A. W. Grenfell as agent, and for the men Messrs. W. E. Gibson, A. M'Mahon, and 11. Hanton were the assessors, and Mr. J. Gressier agent. It was agreed that forty-four hours (as against iortyflvo hours) should constitute a week's work, eight hours to be worked on five days of each week, between the hours of 7.45 a.m. and 5 p.m., and four hours to be worked on Saturdays, between 7.46 a.m. und 13 noon. This is similar to tho clause in the carpenters' award. The overtime and holidays clause of the carpenters' award, was agreed to. A now clause was inserted that each worker shall, on being discharged, be entitled to receive fifteen minutes' notice. Clauses in connection with suburban and country work and conveniences were also adopted on tho lines of those in the carpenters' award. A clause was agreed to prohibiting piece-work, aleo providing that work shall not bo sub-let (labour only). In regard to apprentices the employ* ere' counter-proposale of an in* crease of 5s a week for the first four years and 10s a week for the fifth year were agreed to, with t-he Court's usual clauses. The following addition, was made :—" Wages may be deducted for ■time lost through illness, or default, ahdj an apprentice shall make up such timo before the following year of his apprenticeship shall bo deemed to commence, and tho total period of his apprentice* ship shall be extended for a. period equal to such lost time." The parties agreed to 1 add a clause that where men are substantially employed as foremen it shall not be obligatory on them to become members of the union. No settlement was arrived ai with regard to wages or the preference clause. The awiard, it was agreed, will expire simultaneously with the carpenters' award, on 16th December, 1916, and its scope will be within twenty-fivo miles of Wellington.

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