THEATRE WORKERS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 128, 2 June 1942, Page 2

THEATRE WORKERS

A "frontof-the-house" award covering theatres and other places of amusement, in Taranaki, -WeUiugS Sborough, Canterbury Otago and Southland has been issued by the Court of Arbitration.- Wages are fixed as follows:-Theatre attendants iii picture theatres, other than caretakers aid cleaners, adult males £4 10s per week- youths (under 20) and females, £2 6s/pe?formance workers, 5s M per performance; in other classes of enterSent, all attendants, 6s S>er performance; male caretakers. £5 per* week; male cleaners,. £4 10s; female cleaners, £2 15s; casual male cleaners, 2s Id an hour, females Is 9d: Sunday work, caretak&s, one meeting 12s 6d, Jwo meetings 17s 6d, three or more meetings, or five hours or more, fci 7s 6d. Casual workers are to receive Is per performance extra. ' ,- _ Overtime rates are fixed, including the provision that "midnight" matinees, commencing between 10 p.m. and midnight or ending after midnight, require dOHours Pare limited (at ordinary rates) to 32 for ticket takers and 36 for other attendants in picture theatres, and in other theatres four hours per performance; for caretakers and cleaners. 40 hours per week. Work on Christmas Day Good Friday, and Anzac Day is to be paid for at double rates in addition to the pay due for those days; and work on other statutory holidays and on Sundays at double rates. Urnforms, if required, by the employer, must be provided, and laundered and repaired, by Him. Annual "holidays, on pay, are, for weekly workers, caretakers, twelve days a year; others, nine days; hourly workers, one week. • _ In a dissenting opinion, Mr. A. L. Monteith differed on the question of wages awarded to performance and weekly -female employees,, and to casual male and female cleaners. Evidence had been given that work was harder in theatres than in business premises, and he contended that the industry should pay as well as other industries. Under the; Northern, Wellington, Canterbury, and Otago and Southland Cleaners, Caretakers, Lift Attendants, and Watchmen award of 1941, casual male and female cleaners get more wages,' he said, than had now been awarded. . ■