Plasterers’ Wages and Hours

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 80, 5 April 1938, Page 7

Plasterers’ Wages and Hours

ARBITRATION COURT AWARD Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Last Night. The second Court of Arbitration to-day delivered judgment in the dispute between the Wellington Plasterers’ Industrial Union of Workers and employers in the Wellington district. The award provides that 40 hours shall constitute an ordinary week’s work, eight hours to be worked on five days of each week between the hours of 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. The minimum rate of pay for all journeymen plasterers shall be 2s 10Jd an hour. Two classes of workers only shall bo recognised, journeymen and apprentices. On all outside jobs the worker responsible for carrying out the work and who gives instructions to other workers shall be paid not less than Is a day in addition. All work in excess of 40 hours shall be considered overtime and shall be paid for at the rate of time and a-half for the first four hours, and double time thereafter. The employers shall endeavour to restrict overtime work if there are any members of the union out of work and available at the time and the union shall on request supply any labour that may be available. Tho award provides that the employer shall convey the worker free of charge or pay his fare to and from country work but once only during the continuance of the work. Journeymen employed upon country work are to be paid an additional 5s 2d a day for six days a week but the employer may instead provide them with suitable board and lodging at his own expense. Piecework is prohibited and no work shall be sub-let on a labour only basis. The award takes effect from April 1, 1938, and will continue until February 7, 1939.