HOURS AND WAGES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 306, 25 November 1937, Page 13

HOURS AND WAGES.

PAINTERS’ DISPUTE

AGREEMENT REACHED.

Per Press Association. WELLINGTON. Nov. 24.

After little more than a day’s hearing in Conciliation Council in Wellington a complete agreement was reached in the New Zealand painters’ and decorators’ dispute. The hours of work are to be 40 weekly, worked on the first five days of the week. To prevent work being done at week-ends for private individuals at less than award rates a special clause was inserted making payment at double time rates compulsory for all work done on Saturdays- It will he a breach of the award if any person engages in work on Saturday, Sunday, or any of the specified holidays without first obtaining a permit from the Labour Department. Overtime will be at the same rate as in the existing award, time and a-lialf for the first four hours, and thereafter or between midnight and 6 a.m., double time. The usual statutory holidays are to be observed, overtime to be paid for work on these days or at week-ends.

The rate of wages agreed on is 2s 9d hourly, an increase of threepence. The clause relating to wages will not apply to ticket-writing done by shop establishments in which they are employed. So far as wages are concerned the new award will come into force on December 3, 1937, and will have a duration of one year.