CONCILIATION COUNCIL

Evening Star, Issue 22920, 30 March 1938, Page 16

CONCILIATION COUNCIL

LIME AND CEMENT WORKERS’ DISPUTE A SETTLEMENT REACHED The hearing 'of the industrial dispute between the Otago and Southland Lime and Cement Employees’ Industrial Union of Workers and the lime and cement companies operating in that district was continued yesterday afternoon before a sitting of the Conciliation Council, over which the Conciliation Commissioner (Mr S, Ritchie) A settlement was reached providing for a 44-hour week, to be worked on five eight-hour days, with four hours on Saturdays. Shift work is permitted on condition that all time worked between 1 p.m. on Saturday and midnight on Sunday shall be paid for under special conditions. During shif ts, 30 minutes crib time shall be allowed. If the weekly hours are reduced through darkness to less than 44 a week, the reduced hours shall be worked on five days of the week, Monday to Friday inclusive. Sunday work is optional, and shall be paid for at double time rates. Ordinary overtime shall be paid for at time and a-balt for the first four hours and at double time thereafter. No worker shall be required to work more than five hours continuously without being allowed a meal time. . , . Eight statutory, holidays were allowed as paid holidays, and work on these days must be paid for at double The minimum rates of wages shall be as follow Drill man, with explosive permit, 2s 9Jd an hour, with all other workers scaling down to 2s 4d an hour The union claimed from 2s 5d to ds id an hour. Boys may be employed in the proportion of one to every 10 workers, and shall receive Is 4d to Is i 3 a ai The award shall operate for a term of one year from April 8.