ANOTHER AWARD

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22933, 11 January 1938, Page 14

ANOTHER AWARD

ENGINE-DBIYEKS' PAY DAILY WAGE OF £l/1/3 EXEMPTIONS BY THE COURT The second Court of Arbitration has issued its award for the Auckland certificated engine-drivers, river engineers and marine engine-drivers. As the union proposes to file claims for a new award on a Dominion basis, the Court has made the award to expire on March 8 next so as to coincide with the expiry of the kindred Taranaki, .Wellington, Marlboi'ough and Nelson award. "The principal matters referred to the Court were wages, holidays, dirt money, shift work, exemptions and. right of entry upon promises," .states Mr. Justice Hunter in an attached memorandum. "The applicant union asked in its claims that rates of wages be fixed for three classes of workers, namely, first-class certificated enginedrivers, second-class certificated enginedrivers, and engine-drivers requiring traction or locomotive certificate, but at tho hearing sought to have the dispute extended to cover all the classes of workers provided for in the Taranaki, Wellington, Marlborough and Nelson Engine-drivers Award, of October 29, 1937. The respondents objected to any extension beyond tho original claims. An Application Refused "The Court has ■decided that only those classes of workers set out in the claims can be provided for in the attard. The dispute was heard before a Conciliation Council in November, 1936. If the union desired to amend its claims to embrace additional classes of workers it had ample time in which to do so before the hearing. "The respondents asked the Court to fix a weekly rate of wages. However, a daijy rate has been prescribed, and the question of weekly wages can be further considered when the proposed Dominion dispute comes before the Court. The Waikato and Whangarei Hospital Boards asked to be struck out from the list of respondent parties to the dispute, but the Court has refused their request. "All sawmillers cited applied for exemption from this award on the grounds that the engine-drivers they employ were covered by the timber yards and sawmills employees' awards. The Timber Workers' Unions embrace all workers in the industry, including enginedrivers, and the awards in the sawmilling industry to which such unions are parties make provision . for enginedrivers. tinder these circumstances the Court is bound to strike out the names of sawmillers from the list of parties to this award.'' Hours and Wages

The award provides that the weekly hours of engine-drivers shall be those observed by tho other workers in the industry provided they do not exceed 44. Overtime is at the rate of time and a-half for the first three hours and double time thereafter. The minimum rate of wages for first-class certificated engine-drivers and for those holding traction or locomotive certificates for engines moving from place to place by their own power is £1 Is 3d a day, and for second-class certificated enginedrivers £1 a day. Workers are to have 14 consecutive days holiday per annum on full pay. 'i The award is not to apply to enginedrivers employed in dairy factories, timber yards, sawmills or in any steamship, steamboat or ferry-boat, or to those employed in connection with the power house of the Auckland ElectricPower Board. Special exemption has also been granted among others to the Auckland Hospital Board and the Gisborne Hospital, to the New Zealand Cooperative Dairy Company, Limited, the Northern Steamship Company, Limited, and the Union Steam Ship, Company, Limited.