SOLID PLASTERERS

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 80, 5 April 1938, Page 5

SOLID PLASTERERS

AWARD ISSUED

WELLINGTON DISTRICT

An award for solid plasterers in the Wellington industrial district was issued in the second Court of Arbitration yesterday by Mr. Justice Hunter.

The award is to run from April 1, 1938, to February 7, 1939. It provides for a 40-hour week, to be worked in five eight-hour days, Monday to Friday inclusive, between the hours of 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.; with an hour for lunch. An employer may agree with his workers to allow not letes than half an hour. Theiminimum rate of pay. for journeyman plasterers is fixed at 2s IOJd an hour. There are only.two classes recognised by the award, namely, journeymen and apprentices. All wages are to be paid weekly not later than Thursday, and punctually on the termination of the working hours either on the works or at the employer's place of business. . In the latter case the employee's time and out-of-pocket expenses shall be paid. Waiting time will be paid at ordinary rates. An hour's notice is to be given on either side in the event of discharge or voluntary leaving, and the employer -i shall pay the workers' wages within an hour from the time of discharge and on demand within 24 hours if the worker leaves his work.

Overtime is to' be paid for at the rate of time and a half for the first four hours and double time thereafter, provided that any time worked after 10 p.m. should be paid for at double time rates. Double time is to be paid for work done on Sundays, or on eight prescribed holidays. No worker is to be required to work for more than five hours without a'meal interval. The employers are to endeavour to restrict overtime work if union labour is available, and the union has undertaken to' supply any labour that may be available.

The employer is to convey the

worker to country work free of charge or pay his fare to and from the work, but once only during the continuation of the work. This is subject to rem/Val, sickness, or accident. Travelling time is to be allowed at the. ordinary rates with a limit of one day's pay, unless the worker is employed working that day. An additional rate of 5s 2d' per day for six days per week is to be paid journeymen on country work, unless the employer provides suitable accommodation.

Travelling time in.suburban work is also to be paid for, this' being confined to workmen living over U miles from the place of work. Conveyance costs are also to be paid by the employer. A rate of 3d per hour extra is provided for men employed in fumigating work, work ordered by the health -authorities, coloured work,. or work where high buildings, suspended scaffolds, or wet places, are, involved. An extra rate of 4d per hour is prescribed for other work involving discomfort or risk, and other conditions are also covered. Other clauses cover meal-money, the prohibition of piecework, definition of work, disputes, sanitary accommodation, exemptions, right of entry, underrate workers, and union membership.