WORK OF DRIVERS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22612, 28 December 1936, Page 12

WORK OF DRIVERS

LOCAL BODY EMPLOYEES NEW AWARD CONDITIONS A working week in general of hours, with work to bo limited where practicable to the first five days of the week, has been fixed in an award of the Arbitration Court covering local body drivers for the majority of the industrial districts in the Dominion. Wages are fixed as follows: Driving and attending one horse, £4 8s a week; two horses. £4 lis; each additional horse, 6d a day, or 2s Gil a week; motor vehicles up to 2 tons, £1 lis; 2 tons to 4 tons, £4 3 -»s 6d; 4 tons to 51 tons, £4 16s; s', tons to 10 tons, £5; over 10 tons, £5 .'is; tractors, £4 15s; grader drivers, £3 ss; road construction work, 2s 5d an hour; cartage of sewage, 2s a day in addition; casual drivers, 15 per cent additional. Workers are to receive one week's annual holiday on full pay, seven statutory holidays and two other days. Overtime is to be paid at the rate of time and a-half, with special permissive provisions for country work. The award is to remain in force for a year. In the finding of the Court, the employers' assessor, Mr. \V. Cecil Prime, dissented from the hours of work fixed in the award, while the employees' assessor, Mr. A. L. Monteith, dissented from the overtime provisions for country work.