BUTCHERS’ AWARD.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 24 May 1927, Page 5

BUTCHERS’ AWARD.

CONDITIONS TN TARANAKI

The new butchers’ award to operate in Taranaki, for two years from June 1927, has been filed by the Arbitration Court, which dealt with the matter at a recent sitting in New Plymouth.

The hours of work are fixed at 48 for a week and the times between 7 a.in. and 5 p.m., or 7.30 a.m. and 5.30 p.m., with an hoir for lunch On the weekly half-holiday the hours will be lrom 7 a.m. to 11.30 a.m., or 7.30 a,m. to noon, provided the employers are permitted to commence at G a.m. on one day in each week and that on the half-day half an hour shall be allowed for breakfast.

Minimum weekly wages are fixed as follow: First shopman, or man in chaTge, £5 17s 6d: second shopman, £5 os; first small goods man, £5 17s 6d; all other workers connected with the shop or small goods department, £4 16s; slaughterman, £5 ss. Any worker receiving higher wages than those prescribed shall not have them reduced during the currency of the award. Casual workers are to be paid not less than 2s 6d an hour, with a minimum of four hours’ employment on the half-holiday, and six hours on any other day. Boys and youths are to receive the following wages : Under if years of age, £1 10; from 17 to 18 years of age, £1 15s; from 18 to 19 ears of age, £2 ss; from -9 to 21 years of age, £3. After three years’ services between the ages of 19 and 21 shall receive £3 10.

Hoilidays are fixed as follow: New Year’s Day and January 2, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Anzao Day, Labour Day, King’s Birthday, Christmas Day, Boxing Day, and the butchers’ picnic day. The employers shall have the right to fix the day of the vfeek for the butchers’ picnic. Should any of these holidays, except Anzae Day, fall on a- Sunday they shall be observed on the following Monday, and where the first of two successive holidays falls on a Sunday ,it shall be -observed on the following Monday and the second on the Tuesday. One holiday of one week on full pay shall be granted to each worked on completion of each year of .service. It is provided that female labour may not be employed, except in pork butchers’ shops. a;nd no boy under 16 may luave charge of a cart or a motorcar.

Overtime for work after the ordinary daily hours is set down as time and a 1 half for the first four hours and double rates thereafter. Double rates shall rule for work before the ordinary morning hour for commencing. Preference and uhder rate workers’ clauses are included.

Pork butchers’ land small goods shops may close at 6 p.m. on four days of the week, 9 p.m. one day, and 1. p.m. on the weekly half-holiday.