AN AWARD.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, 11 April 1908, Page 4

AN AWARD.

BUTTER, CREAMERY AND CHEESE _ WORKERS. [PEESS ASSOCIATION.? WELLINGTON, April 11. The award in the Wellington butter, creamery and cheese factory dispute fixes the minimum weekly wages of butter-makers at £3 10s, cheese-makers £3 10s, engine-drivers £3, first assistants £2 15s, cream receivers £2 10s, creamery managers £2 ss, other workers (not including youths) £2 ss, youths from 16s to 17 years not less than 15s per week, 17, to 18 years 25s per week, casual workers not less than one-eighth in addition to foregoing rates. No preference is recommended to unionists. The week’s work is not' to -exceed 54 hours. The hours of work ,in or in connection with creameries are to be subject to mutual agreement: Overtime is.to.be paid at the following rates--First four hours, time and a half; double thereafter. Overtime is not to be reckoned, until the aggregate number of hours actually worked shall have exceeded 54 hburs. livery employee who works not less than eight •months during onq year for the same employer, is to receive fourteen days’ holiday on full pay, and a holiday of proportionate duration is to be allowed every worker who. shall have .worked less than eight mouths during the same year for the same employer, butfenot less than six months. .Christmas Day and Good Friday are to <be- observed its holidays, and all work done on these days is to be -paid for at the rate of double pay. W