COURT OF ARBITRATION

Evening Star, Issue 24007, 4 October 1941, Page 13

COURT OF ARBITRATION

IRON MILL WORKERS’ NEW AWAP.D The industrial dispute between the Green Island Irou-rolnng Mills’ Employees’ Union and the Otago Iron-roll-ing Mills Company Ltd. has been decided by the Court of Arbitration. 'Hie matters settled by the court related to shift allowance, holidays, the provision of special equipment, and the date of coming into force of the award. The Court fixed an allowance of Is 6d per shift or part of a shift for all shill workers working on additional shifts between 5 p.m. and 2.15 a.m, the following day. The Court hold that every worker coming within the scope of the award should be allowed the following holidays without deduction of pay:—Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year’s Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Anzac Day, Labour Day, Anniversary Day, and the birthday of the reigning sovereign. AH' time worked on any of the holidays should be paid for at the rate of double time in addition to tho day’s pay. If any of these holidays (except Anzac Day) fell on a Sunday, the holiday should be observed on the following Monday. Tho -Court decided that workers engaged in the open in wet weather should he supplied with oilskins, and that hot and cold showers should ho provided for employees. Tho award will come into force on October 6 and continue in force until October 6, 1942.