PAINTERS & DECORATORS
SUBURBAN WORK.
The painters and decorators' disputo was continued before the Conciliation Commissioner (Mr. W. Newton) yesterday afternoon. It was agreed that when men are discharged they should be allowed time not exceeding two hours to get their tools from the job they were-working at, provided that in the event of a worker being notified before he leaves tho job no such allowance shall be made. The contentious suburban work clause was argued at length, and agreement was finally reached with the decision that time reasonably occupied by workers in travelling, or time occupied in conveying them to and from work beyond one and a half miles of the fixed centre in each district, should be allowed and paid for by the employer. For the purpose of the clause all distances are to be measured by the nearest convenient mode of access for foot passengers. : - , -• The council adjourned until to-dffb
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Evening Post, Volume 137, Issue CXI, 10 June 1926, Page 10
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