HOURS AND WAGES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22657, 19 February 1937, Page 10

HOURS AND WAGES

ENGINEDRIVERS' DISPUTE CONCILIATION AGREEMENT [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION*] "WELLINGTON. Thursday Agreement was reached on wages and hours at to-day's tearing of the enginedrivers' dispute by the Conciliation Council. It was agreed that statutory holidays for factory workers would be in accordance with the Factories Act, and that other workers would observe the conditions in the establishment where they were employed. Men regularly employed on shift work are to have two weeks' holiday a year on full pay, and others one week. Enginedrivers requiring a first-class certificate are to be paid £5 5s a week, workers with a second-class certificate £5, and uncertificated workers £4 los, all to receive 14 days' holiday a year on full pav. Two shillings a day is to be allowed for getting up stegim. Special rates for county council employees range from £1 Is a day for drivers of traction engines and steam road-rollers to 18s 6d a day for winch drivers. BISCUIT FACTORIES COMPLETE AGREEMENT [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] CHRISTCHURCH, Thursday A complete agreement was reached in conciliation council in the Dominion biscuit and confectionery employees' industrial dispute. The following minimum weekly rates of wages were finally agreed on:—Workers in, charge of departments who have served not less than five years in the trade, £5 7s (3d; first assistants or leading hands in charge of not less than three adult male workers, £4 17s Gd; man operating bean roaster, chocolate mixer, chocolate machine moulder, operator of chocolate enroberspan, operator when operating not less than four revolving pans, man working vacuum cooker, man working off sugar boilings, bakehouse machinist in charge of biscuit cutting and embossing machine, brakesman marzipan and paste maker, liquorice boiler, cream and syrup boiler, over syrup boiler, and oven attendant responsible for baking biscuits in travelling ovens, each £4 7s 6d; general hands, £4 3s. Departments recognised in the award were biscuit, chocolate, and confectionery. Wages for youths under 21 were fixed as follows: —First six months, £1 2s 6d, and rising by 4s. increases at the end of each six-monthly period until during the fifth six months the wage shall be £1 18s 6d a week; for the sixth six months the wage is to be £2, with £2 7s 6d for the fourth year and £3 2s Gd for the fifth year. Thereafter the wage is to bo not less than the minimum rate for general hands. Six-monthly increases of 4s a week were also fixed for female workers, starting, at the rate of 17s Gd with regular increases to £1 17s 6d for the sixth six months. For the seventh six months wages were fixed at £2 Is, and for the eighth six months and thereafter not less than £2 4s. The new rates of wages will be paid from March 1 and the award will continue in force until June 30, 1938.