GARAGE WORKERS' AWARD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19947, 16 May 1928, Page 14

GARAGE WORKERS' AWARD.

BOY AND WOMEN EMPLOYEES. INTERPRETATION BY COURT. Reserved judgment lias been delivered by Mr. Justice Frazer regarding an application made in the Arbitration Court by the inspector of awards in Auckland for an interpretation of the 1926 award covering the employment of boys and women in garages and motor service stations. Tho ruling of the Court on the specific questions raised is to the effect that boys may be employed for longer hours than prescribed in a clause of the award provided overtime is paid at the prescribed rates. Women may be employed in classes of work coming within the scope of clause 7, their hours of work being limited, however, by statutory restrictions. It is not considered that women were intended to bo employed on certain classes of work described in clause 1 (f) and in such cases tho terms "workers" and "assistants" are held to refer specially to men. POSITION OF WOMEN. " BARRED FROM EMPLOYMENT." Mr. R. F. Barter, union secretary, stated yesterday the judgment of the Court will not, 'in practice, enable women to be employed as garage attendants, because they are barred from employment as provided in clause 7 by provisions of the Factories Act. Mr. Barter said tho awards covering the subject would come up for revision at a conciliation council in Christchurch in June.