Ship-work Carpenters Seek Shorter Hours, Bigger Pay

Northern Advocate, 28 May 1940, Page 7

Ship-work Carpenters Seek Shorter Hours, Bigger Pay

[Per Press Association. Copyright.] WELLINGTON. This Day. An application for a Dominion award to cover carpenters and joiners engaged on ship-work came before the Court of Arbitration today. Decision was reserved. The workers claimed a 40-hour five-day week, with a minimum rate of 3/- an hour, an increase of 7 per cent, over the present rate of 2/9:,. The union also claimed that men ordered back to work on Saturdays should be paid for a minimum of three hours at double time. Overtime in excess of 40 hours a week was claimed at 4/6 an hour for the first three hours, and thereafter 6/- an hour. For all hours worked on Saturdays, holdays and Sundays, 6/- an hour was sought. Employers’ Opposition The employers urged tliat a clause in the existing award providing for a 44-hour week between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., from Monday to Friday, and 8 a.m. to noon on Saturdays be retained, but with a special provision in the wages clause providing for Saturday work at time and a quarter from 8 a.m. to noon and double time thereafter. The employers were also opposed to any increase in the 2/92 an hour now being paid for ship repair work.

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