WORKING HAIRDRESSERS

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 17, 21 January 1916, Page 8

WORKING HAIRDRESSERS

PAY AND HOUES.

NEW AGREEMENT MADE.

The Wellington Hairdressers' Union to-day filed, with the Clerk of Awards an application for a new award governing conditions of employment and wages in the trade. February 7th has been appointed as the day for the discussion of the claims by the Conciliation Council, but Hbe dispute will not cause the Conciliation Commissioner much trouble, for between the time when the claims were prepared "and the date for filing representatives of the union met the master hairdressers and concluded an agreement with them covering all the mam .point*: of dispute, and practically on the lines of the union claims.

This agreement provides that the hours of work shall not exceed fifty-two per week, exclusive of meal hours, to be arranged by the employer, but so that work shall'end not later than 7 p.m. on three days in the weelt; 6 p.m. on one day, 1 p.m. on the day of the weekly half-holiday, and 9 p.m. on the late nightvfWednesday, Friday, or Saturday) and Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve. Meal hours shall be arranged by th« employer so that not leas than one. hour shall be allowed off for dinner, and half an hour for tea (one hoar on the late night), and no employee shall be required to work more than five hours without an interval. No worker shall be allowed to take a customer into his chair after five minutes'before the closing hour, nor shall he be detained more than five minutes after the hour. The minimum wage paid to journeymen or journeywomen shall be : First chairman or chairwoman, £3 5s per week ; all others £3 per week. An employer working thirty hours as a journeyman in his own saloon shall be classed as first chairman. Holidays,' for which no deductions from pay shall be made, are :— New Year's Day, Good Friday, Sovereign's Birthday, Labour Day, Christmas Day, Anniversary Day, Easter Monday, Boxing Day, and the second Tuesday in February to be set apart as the hairdressers' picnic day. In case of any of the holidays mentioned falling on a Sunday they shall be observed on the Monday following. Where an establishment closes for the. weekly half-holiday on some other day than Saturday, the alternative day shall be Wednesday. A " journeyman " or " journey woman " shall mean one who / has been at the trade for a period of at least five years. Apprentices may be employed in the proportion of one to three journeymen at the following rates :—First year, 10s a week; second, 15s; third, £1; fourth.. £1 ss; fifth, £1 15s. An employee permanently engaged1' in a saloon shall not accept temporary employment in any other saloon on the afternoon or evening of his weekly half-holiday. Casual labour shall be paid for at the rate of 16s for long days, 12s 6d for other days, and on the day of the half-holiday 7s" 6d. The award is to apply within a radius of twelve miles from Wellington Post Office, and to continue in Operation for a year from Ist February, Preference is provided for. •

Assessors nominated to act on the Conciliation- Council are : Messrs. E. L. Doyle, J. Harrison, and W. J. Carruthers.

Die Mayor 16 anxious to receive outstanding accounts in connection with the Citizens' Chriitmas Dinner Fund, to enable a balance-sheet tp be prepared ami oubltfhed.