Hours and Pay of City Council Workers

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 239, 9 October 1936, Page 7

Hours and Pay of City Council Workers

AGREEMENT IN AUCKLAND. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Last Night. An agreement drawn up by tho Local Bodies Labourers’ Union and tho Auckland City Council covering the employees of the latter body was ratified at a meeting of the union at the Trades Hall, which was attended by 520 members. A 40-hour week and eight-hour day will now be worked, Saturday work being permitted on essential services (street cleaning, etc.), and the men are to work the hours necessary without payment of overtime, provided it does not mean working more, than a 40-hour week or eight hours in ono day. The rates of pay will be: General labourers, 2s 3d per hour; quarry ami scoria pit men, hammer and drill workers, 2s 4d; leading hands, concrete

and stone work, 2s sd; gangers and machine drillers, 2s Gel; destructor employees and leading hands, 2s 74d; firemen and chargers, 2s 6d; receivers and refuse handlers, 2s 44d. Weekly rates for convenience attendants will be £4 for males and £3 for females. The female bath attendant is to be paid £3 and tip men and weighbridge attendants £4. Overtime is to be paid at the rate of time and a-half for the first three hours and double time thereafter. Where a worker attends a job but does not work on that day he is to receive two hours' pay. Any employee called out to’ do special work is to receive n minimum of 2s Gd. A break of ten minutes is to bo allowed for morning tea.