COUNCIL LABOURERS

Evening Post, Issue 87, 9 October 1936, Page 4

COUNCIL LABOURERS

AUCKLAND AGREEMENT

A FORTY-HOUR WEEK.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, October 8,

•An agreement drawn up by the Local Bodies' Labourers' Union and the Auckland City Council covering the employees of the latter body was ratified today at a meeting of the unipn at the Trades Hall, which was attended by 520 member Si. A 40-hour week and an eight-hour day will.now be worked, Saturday work being permitted on essential services (street cleaning, etc.), and the men. are to work the hours necessary without payment of overtime, provided it does not mean working more than a'4o-hour week or eight hours'in one day. The rates of pay will be:—General labourers, 2s 3d an hour; quarry and scoria pit men, hammer and drill workers, 2s 4d; leading hands concrete and stone' work, 2s sd;' gangers and machine drillers, 2s 6d; destructor employees, leading hands, 2s 7Jd; firemen and chargers, 2s 6d; receivers and refuse handlers, 2s 4Jd. The weekly wages for convenience attendants will be £4 for males and £3 for females. A female bath attendant is to be paid £3, and tip men and weighbridge attendants £4. , Overtime is to be paid at the rate of time arid a half, for the first three hours arid double "time thereafter. Where a worker attends a job but does no work on that day, he is to receive two hours" pay. Any employee called out to do special work is to receive a minimum of 2s 6d. A break of ten minutes is to be . allowed for morning tea. ...