LOCAL BODIES.
DRIVERS’ CONDITIONS. Per Press Association. AVELLINGTON, Oct. 2. The Conciliation Commissioner (Mr M. J. Reardon) was engaged to-day in Conciliation Council hearing of the New Zealand local body drivers’ industrial dispute in an application for a new Dominion award. ’The respondents include borough councils, county councils, town, road, river, drainage, harbour and electric power boards. An agreement was reached on wages and hours and the council adjourned till to-morrow to enable the employees’ representatives to consider the following proposals by the local bodies: A 44-hour week (the workers wanted 40) of nine hours a day (the workers wanted 8) to bo worked between 7 a.m. and 6 p.m.; wages to he computed on an hourly basis; overtime at the rate of time and a-half, to be computed oil a fortnightly spread. Emergency work, that is work made necessary by the blocking _ of communications through storms, slips, etc., time and a-half beyond 10 hours; emergency work on holidays, double time- beyond 10 hours.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 262, 3 October 1936, Page 4
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164LOCAL BODIES. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 262, 3 October 1936, Page 4
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