SHEARERS' AWARD
CLAUSES ALTERED
Regulations gazetted last night suspend certain clauses in the shearers' award and substitute the following:—
"(a) The hours of shearing shall be from 5 a.m. to 5 p.m. or from 5.30 a.m. to ,5.30 p.m., with intervals for meals and smoking as shall be mutually agreed upon between the shedmanager and shearers' representative. Shearing shall stop at 4 pjn. on Saturdays, except when forty-eight hours and twenty minutes' work shall have been done before noon, in which case thi| work may be stopped then.j When shearing wet 'ewes, the shed-riianager may alter the intervals for smoking and extend the hours to the extent of half an-hour in order to complete the cutout.
"(b) Where the hours in any one week exceed forty-four, weekly shed hands shall be paid at the rate of one •forty-fourth of the weekly wage for each hour worked or part thereof in addition to the weekly wage due on th£ v forty-four-hour week* as prescribed by^ ; clauses 12 and 29 of.the New Zealand Shearers' and Shed Hands' award dated September 18, 1939. The rates for.the 1940-41 season under this provision shall be—For pressers, 2s o_»d per hour; and for shed hands, Is lOd per hour"
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 28, 1 August 1940, Page 7
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203SHEARERS' AWARD Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 28, 1 August 1940, Page 7
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