INDUSTRIAL AWARD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13879, 13 October 1908, Page 6

INDUSTRIAL AWARD.

WELLINGTON BOOKBINDERS. [BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION-] Wellington, Monday. The Arbitration Court has given, its award in the industrial dispute between the Bookbinders and Paper Rulers' Trade Union and 20 firms of employers carrying on business in the Wellington industrial district. The Court has. decided that the hours of labour shall be 48 per week. Competent journeymen are to receive £3 per week as a minimum for full time; competent casual hands, •whose employment is for less than a- -week, to be paid Is 4£d per hour; overtime to be paid for at tho rate of time and one-third for work on any days except Sundays or holidays, and double time on Sundays, Christmas Day, and Good Friday, and time and a-half on the following holidays: New; Year's Day, Easter Monday, Labour Day, King's Birthday, Boxing Day, Anniversary Day, and Prince of Wales' Birthday. Journeymen who do not consider themselves capable of earning full wages may be paid a smaller sum, as may be fixed by the local inspector of awards. Apprentices are to be paid not less than 10s per week for the first year; second, year, 12s 6d; third year, 15s; fourth year„ £1; .fifth year, £1 ss; sixth year, £1 10s. An employer taking an apprentice shall give notice to the inspector of factories. An employer must keep his apprentice at work, but if there is a slackness of work that fact may form a proper ground for transferring the apprentice to a master willing to undertake the responsibility cf teaching him his trade. The proportion of apprentices to journeymen is to be one *or the house, and one for every three journeymen who have been regularly employed far two-thirds of the year. Employers are hot to discriminate against member - of the union in employing journeymen. The award is to come into force on November 1, 1908, and remain in operation for two years.