LOCAL BODY WORKERS’ NEW CONDITIONS

Northern Advocate, 10 December 1937, Page 5

LOCAL BODY WORKERS’ NEW CONDITIONS

[Per T'ress Association.- ■ ConyrightJ WELLINGTON. This Day.

A complete settlement restilted from the hearing of the local bodies’ labourers dispute, which was continued in Conciliation Council yesterday before the Conciliation Commissioner, Mr. S. Ritchie. The new conditions will come into force on December 15 and remain effective until March 31, 1939. The ’agreement provides for a 40hour week to be worked in eight-hour shifts on five days of the week, with no work on Saturdays. Shifts must be worked between 7.30 a.m. and 5.30 p.m., and there is special provision for emergency work enabling employer's to work men where necessary. New Wages Scale. Under the new wages scale, permanent workers are to receive £4/10/- a week, weekly workers £4/8 / 4 a week and casual workers 2/4 an hour. A permanent worker is classed as any who has been employed for 12 months, or who has been classed as a permanent worker by a decision of the local body concerned. Weekly workers must be guaranteed a minimum of four weeks’ work or else be paid not less than the hourly rate. Permanent workers are to be given one week’s holiday at the conclusion of a year of service. Work in Wet Places, Where men are required to work in wot places, or in places where the air is foul six hours' work is to constitute a shift, and is to be treated as eight hours’ work. Employees are also to be paid 2d an hour when removing boulders, or stone by hand from under water. Ihe termination of the award on March 31 was asked for to facilitate the work ot councils with respect to their financial year.