DRIVERS' WAGES.
DOMINION SETTLEMENT.
MINIMUM RATES FIXED.
JBX TELEGBAPH.—PBESS ASSOCIATION.] DUNEDIN. Wednesday. The recent decision of a conciliation council which sat at Dunedin has been accepted as a settlement of the drivers' dispute for the Dominion. Hours of work are fixed at 48 per week. The minimum wages are:—For those driving and attending one horse, £3 16s per week; driving or attending two or more horses, £3 17s 6d; driving and attending to motor vehicles with a carrying capacity of from Scwt. to one ton, £3 18s; driving and attending to motor vehicles of from one ton up to two tons, £4; driving and attending motor vehicles of two to three tons, £4 3s; driving and attending motor vehicles of- more than three tons, £4 6s 6d. In addition a bonus of 10s is to be paid. Overtime is to be paid horse-drivers at the rate of 2s 3d per hour, and between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. at 5s per hour. Motor drivers will be paid 2s 4d per hour, and in the case of vehicles over two tons, 2s 6d per hour. Drivers ordered back to work after the tea hour shall be paid a minimum of two hours' pay. For work done on Sundays, Christmas Day, or Good Friday a driver's pay will be 3s Id per hour.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 17755, 14 April 1921, Page 4
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