GENERAL LABOURERS
i APPLICATION FOR NEW AWARD :| .rr WELLINGTON, This Day. Increased pay on a weekly basic 1 1 of C 6 "I place of tbo pwwwrt h 44 I an hour and certain alterations in con- , j ditions of employment for general 'labourers are asked for in an appli- ! cation made by the General Labourers* Unions in various districts for a new | Dominion aw ard. It was agreed to-day that a week's work shall not exceed 4P hours, eight hours on five days and workers in wet places and foul air j w’ork six hours a day, and be paid as j for eight. The demands contain classification of workers into unskilled, semiskilled and skilled. There is no classification in the existing award and employers ask for deletion of the semiskilled clause.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 6 December 1938, Page 7
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