LOCAL BODY DRIVERS
DOMINION DISPUTE HEARING 1 CONCILIATION PROCEEDINGS [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION"] WELLINGTON, Friday The conciliation council was engaged j to-day in hearing the New Zealand I Local Body Drivers' industrial dispute. In an application for a new Dominion j award, tho respondents include borough councils, county councils, town, road, river, drainage, harbour and power boards. An agreement was reached on wages and hours. The council adjourned until to-morrow to enable the employees' representatives to consider the local bodies' proposals for a 44-hour week of nine hours a day, to be worked between 7 a.m. and G p.m. The proposals are for wages to be computed on an hourly basis, with overtime at the rate of time and a-half. computed fortnightly. The local bodies suggest that emergency work, duties made necessary by the blocking of communications through storms or j slips, should be paid for at time and j a-half for more than ten hours, and on holidays at double time beyond ten hours.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22540, 3 October 1936, Page 15
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