INCREASE IN WAGES OF HAIRDRESSERS
(P.A.) AUCKLAND, June 4. The minimum wage lor journeyman hairdressers or women employed in men’s work is raised by 3s 2d to £7 a week by an. Arbitration Couit award issued today for the northern industrial district.
Casual workers are given |d an hour increase. Their wages will not be less than 3s 9d an hour. No casual worker will be engaged for less than four hours continuously.
Closing hours remain the same, but the award stipulates that no customer will be taken into the chair later than five minutes before the barber is due to cease work, nor must a barber be kept working more than five minutes after closing hour.
The award operates from Monday for two years.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22656, 5 June 1948, Page 6
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125INCREASE IN WAGES OF HAIRDRESSERS Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22656, 5 June 1948, Page 6
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