ARBITRATION COURT.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 23 December 1913, Page 8

ARBITRATION COURT.

, GENERAL LABORERS.

BT TELEGRAPH—P.tKSS ASSOCIATION.

_, ' DUNEDIN, Dec. 22. The awards mad£ by the Arbitration Court ;in the general laborers' dispute provide that men \ working for local bodies shall have a 47 hours' week in tunnel work, hours not to exceed 8 per day, with half-hour for crib time, and in wet places or foul air hours not to "exceed (six. , The minimum wages shall be: Laborers emploj'ed in tunnel or in trenches (depth of 6ft or over) Is 3d per hour; laborers employed in concrete work, pick and "shovel work, sewer work, kerbing and channelling work; laying and cleaning drains, asphalt and tar work, and all other work of same, kind, Is 2d per hour; overtime io be naid at the rate of time and a quarter for the first hour and ,time ancTa half afterwards; all work done on Saturday' afternoon to be paid for at the rate of time-and a half. For | laborers -employea in •■• connection with building operations a 44 hours' week is provided for. v The following shall be the miiiimum wage: Workers in charge of derricks or employed in hod carrying, scaffolding or wheeling bricks on scaffold. Is 3d, per hour; all other laborers employed/ in connection with, building .operations,. Is 2d per hour. For laborers etnnloyed by contractors a peek's work shall be 47 hours, and the wages shall be:: Laborers .employed in tunnels or in trenches of a dgpth of 6ft or oyer, Is 3d per hour; laborers employed, in concrete work, pick and shovel.jwork, sewer work, kerbing and channelling vrork, laying^ and cleaning drains, asphalt work and tar work, and all other work of the same%kind. Is 2d per hour; youths may be employed at not less than the following rates of wages: up to 17 years ; of age, 18s per week; up; to 18 years of age, 18s per week:; up to 19 years of age, £1 6s per week; up to 20 years of age, £1 10s per week; up to 21 years of &pp, 6s per day or £1.16s per week; the^ proportion of jotiths shall be not more than one to every, five, men fully employed; youths under 21 years, of , age shall not be permittedntb be shot firers.