LABOUR

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 10 May 1915, Page 3

LABOUR

S UIP \V RIG HTS' AW AR D. lU*ixv= Pp«sa AsaooiATiow.) WELLINGTON, May 9. The Arbitration Coiut has filed its award in tho shipwrights' dispute. In •a memorandum the Court states that the chief question in dispute was wages, which the Court fixed at the same rate as in the Port Chalmers award. Foremen under weekly engagement were excluded from *the> operation of the award, hut tho Court refused to exclude workmen, similarly engaged, believing they were entitled to the benefit of the award. The award provides for a week of 44 hours, with payment for journeymen at the rate of Is 7d per hour, overtime to be time and a quarter for the first two hours and time and a half thereafter, extra payment to be made for work done on holidays and in meal hours. Men are to be paid if or travelling time when engaged away from their place of business. Salvage work is to bo paid for according to arrangement. Disputes are to be deeided by the inspector of awards. Men engaged on "dirty work" are to be paid.ls 9d per hour. Preference to unionists is granted The award applies to an area within 12 miles of the Wellington Post Office, and operates for two years from May 17th. A qualified exemption is Granted in case of "the Harbour Board, subject to the minimum wages being paid.