MANUFACTURING JEWELLERS

Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 48, 25 August 1921, Page 8

MANUFACTURING JEWELLERS

AN AWARD FILED,

The award relating to the wages and conditions of Wellington District Mannfactoring Jewellers, Watch and Clock Workers was filed in the Arbitration. Court yesterday. .At the conclusion of the discussion at the Conciliation Coum oil the parties decided to accept without alteration the recommendations of the Council. The Court has ordered that the award shall come into effect aa regards wages as from Ist August, and as from 23rd August in regard to other points, and will continue in force till Ist August, 1923. '

The award provides that journeymen shall receive not less than. £4 10s per week, and workers employed solely on the routine or stamping machine (doing other than jewellery or badge work) not less than £4 per week, but both rates are to be increased by a bonus of 3s per week. Female workers, employed, on certain work only, are not to, be apprenticed, and are to receive for the first 1 six months £1 per week, second' six months £1 25.6 d, second year £1 ss, iJhird year .£1 10s, fourth year £1 17s 6d, and thereafter not' less than £2 5s per week. Provision was also made for the payment of a bonus of 6s 6d. per week to females over 21 years, and of 6s for those under that age.

The term of apprenticeship shall he six years, and the wage 3as follows :— First year 15s per week, second year £1 2s 6d, third year £1 10s, fourth year £1 17s 6d, fifth year £2 ss, and sixth year £3. The proportion of apprentices to journeymen shall not exceed' one to three or fraction of three.

Other clauses of the award relate to holidays, under-rate workers, etc., and it is provided that nothing in the award shall apply to any foreman, manager, or shop-assistant, a foreman being defined as a journeyman in charge of any 'branch of the trade'in which three or more workers are employed. The award aplies to 86 establishments in Wellington, Wanganui, Napier, Hastings, Palmerston North, Masterton, Dannevirke, Woodville, Foxton, Levin, Waipawa, Waipukurau, Otaki, Featherston, and Carterton.