SUGAR WORKERS
ARBITRATION COURT’S NEW AWARD. Par Press Association. AUCKLAND, July 12. The sugar-workers’ award retains the’44-hour week and overtime at the rate of time and a half far the first three hours and double time thereafter. The wages range from £4 to £5 per week. In a memorandum, the court says that the existing award is slightly modified, and, as the wages were slightly under the rates for siriiilar work, it increased the bonus by 2s all round. A request by the company to increase The hours of firemen engaged in charburning without payment of overtime had been refused, as only one fireman was affected per week, and the court was of opinion that overtime should be paid if the company reaped the benefit of the larger output. It had been asserted by the union last -year that production by 48 hours would be maintained in a 44hour week. Evidence showed that this had not been maintained, but as there was reason to believe that the circumstances beyond the control of the workers may have had a bearing on the result, the system would be given a further trial. The currency of the award is two years.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10951, 13 July 1921, Page 5
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