AWARD CONDITIONS
BOILERMAKERS AND BRIDGEBUILDERS (By Telegraph —Press Association) WELLINGTON. This Day. The award for boilermakers and iron ship and bridgebuilders provides a forty hour week on five days. One night shift each 24 hours is permitted, but work at night for less than three consecutive nights is paid for at overtime rates which is time and a half for the first four hours and double thereafter. Three shillings per shift for night work, and wages are 2s s|d hourly. The award is for a year’s duration. i Mr Monteith dissented, considering that the rate should be 2s 6d. The New Zealand passenger and transport drivers award has been amended reducing .bus drivers’ hours from a 96 to 80 hour fortnight, providing a weekly maximum of 44 instead of 52. Service-car drivers’ hours are reduced from 96 to 88. per fortnight, and from 52 to 48 in any one week.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 21 December 1936, Page 5
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150AWARD CONDITIONS Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 21 December 1936, Page 5
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