CONCILIATION BOARD

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6311, 11 September 1907, Page 7

CONCILIATION BOARD

THE BAKERS' DISPUTE. Tb© recommendations of the Conciliation Board for the settlement of the dispute in the baking trade were filed yesterday by the chairman of tho Board (Air P. J. O'Regan). The recommendations cover the entire industrial district of Wellington. The Board recommends .that tho week's work shall not exceed forty-eight hours. Not more than eight and a half hours shall be worked on each of five working days, and five and a half hours on the weekly half-holiday. The time for commencing‘work shall not be earlier than 4 a.m., save on the days following one or two holidays, as the case may be, when tho hours for commencing work shall be 3 a.m. and 2 a.m. respectively. Half an hour shall be allowed for breakfast each working day. The minimum rates of wages throughout the industrial district shall be as follows: Foreman, £3 5s per week; any* man except the foreman working ah oven, £S; others, £2 10s; jobbers, 11s per day, to be paid not less than half a day's wages for any work done. All employees to receive ‘'dry pay." When the employer is substantially engaged in the bakehouse he shall not commence work earlier than the hour hereinbefore prescribed. He sljhll attend to his own oven, set ferments, and take an equal share in sponging, and if he engages another man to sponge -he shall pay such other man for his time. Overtime rates are to be paid as follows: Time and a quarter from 1 p.m. to 4 p.ra.; thereafter time and a half until 10 p.m. No work shall be done between 10 p.m. and midnight. To apprentices overtime shall be 9d per hour for tho first year, and thereafter Is per hour. If an employer requires his men to commence work before the hours prescribed he shall pay for all work done between midnight and the regular time for commencing work at tho rate of double time, and such rate shall be paid although a full day’s work may not have been worked by the worker who is required to work at such earlier hour. Work on holidays time and a half, Christmas Day, Good Friday, Sundays. double time in. addition'to the regular wage. The usual clauses are added to the award with reference to apprentices, under-rat© workers, and preference to unionists.