STOREMEN AND PACKERS
AGREEMENT REACHED. [ PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. | WELLINGTON. May 20. A complete settlement was reached in the Conciliation Council, in the Conciliation Council, in the industrial dispute of storemen and packers in the fruit, and produce stores in The Dominion. A -10-hour tive-day week was agreed to, with a maximum day of nine hours, but it was also agreed that, workers could be employefl for an additional four hours weekly at ordinary fates, on any day of the week. Provision was made for shift workers, but shift workers engaged between 5 a.tn. and 2 p.m. are to receive 1/- extra per shift. No work is to be done before 1 a.m. 'l'lte wage, .£4/10/-. was tigreed on for storemen and packers over 21. with Hi/- extra for the head storeman in charge of two to live, and ,£ 1 mon 1 for over five workers. Youths' wages art* £ 1/5/- under .17. to L:i/2/(> at 20. The wages tire retrospective to April !
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Greymouth Evening Star, 20 May 1938, Page 2
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