TAXI CLERKS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 32, 8 February 1939, Page 13

TAXI CLERKS

WAGES AND HOURS

AGREEMENT REACHED

Complete agreement was reached in conciliation council today in the dispute over the wages and conditions of clerical employees and / taxi-tele-phonists. Mr- M. J. Reardon, Conciliation Commissioner, presided. The, assessors for the applicants were Messrs. A. S,- Herring (Auckland), J. R. Herbert (Dunedin); S. Bolton (New Plymouth), A. A. Johnson (Nelson), ,L.. Nuttall (Christchurch), H. E. Kimble (Inyercargill), and W. Mitchell (Greymouth), and for the respondents Messrs. A. Sinclair (Auckland), S. J. McKenzie (Palmerston North), D. Martin (Wanganui), J. S: Phillips (Dunedin), G. E. Fisher (Invercargill), and H. J. Knight (Wellington). Mr. W. N. Pharazyn .was agent for the applicants and Mr. H. Bishop for the ■respondents. . Three weeks' holiday on full pay was allowed. All clerical workers, other than iaxitelephon,ists, are to be subject to the general clerical workers' award in the industrial .district in which they 'are engaged. A taxi-telephonist was described as a worker substantially engaged in receiving by telephone orders for taxi-cabs and/or dispatching cabs. A senior was a worker entitled to £4 5s a week, or more in the case of males, and £2 5s in the case of females. The wages ior males range from 20s for those under the age of 17 in their first half year to BZs for those of 21 or over in their seventh year. Females under 17 years of age will receive 15s in the first six months and those over 21 years will receivei 45s in their fifth year and thereafter. Switchboard attendants, a telephonist engaged in an. office where a private automatic branch exchange or a private manual branch is. installed, are to be paid additional rates as follows:--Senior males, 10s a week; -senior females, 10s a week; junior' "',' males, 5s a rweek; junior females, 2s 6d a week"; Where a staff of six or more telephonists is employed the worker in charge is to receive not less than £5 a week and at least two others are to be paid the senior'rate/ Where twelve or more are employed at feast foul* others are to receive senior rate. ' ■ r :"V ? The ordinary hours of Work are.;to be 88 ■ a fortnight, provided that the maximum hours that may be worked in any week: without payment of overtime shall be 50. ■ •' ■ It will- be competent for an employer to work shifU.- not exceeding eight hours "a day in which case the week's work may- be spread oyer six days and one period of twehty-fpiir consecutive hours off duty shall be allowed. Shifts may also be worked, but they are not to exceed ten hours a day in which case the week's work will be spread over five days and two periods of twenty-four consecutive hours off duty will be allowed. . ,; Female workers are to receive^ overtime after 10.30 p.m. and are not to be employed between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. Shifts are to rotate not less freqtiently than monthly. The award is for one year, and in respect to wages it \yill. come into operation from November 1, 1935, aiidj in respect to other conditions:/ froni, the time of making, of the award. >v