INDUSTRIAL AWARDS
BY-PRODUCT WORKERS
The Court of Arbitration has issued an award for the Canterbury and Southland by-products workers. The award provides for a 44-hour week, the minimum rates of wages being as follows :—Casing workers, £6 3s 4d per week; workers receiving offal and/or cutting up paunches at by-products and boiling-down works, 2s lOd per hour; workers loading 'up iwells, 2s 9d per hour; workers whilst engaged in crushing air-dried bones and tallow workers, 2s BJd per hour; all other workers, 2s 7-id per hour. Men engaged chipping boilers,, digesters, and iwells shall be paid at the rate of time and a-half for such work. Shift workers shall be paid Is 6d per shift extra for each afternoon or night shift worked. The wages •of youths are fixed at a minimum of £1 7s fid for those under 16 years of age, increasing to £3 17s 6d for those 19 to 20 years of age.
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Evening Star, Issue 25620, 22 October 1945, Page 7
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156INDUSTRIAL AWARDS Evening Star, Issue 25620, 22 October 1945, Page 7
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