ARBITRATION COURT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17711, 23 August 1919, Page 13

ARBITRATION COURT

AWARDS AND AMENDMENTS FILED. The Arbitration Court has amended the Dunedin Painters' and Decorators' award as follows: —Clause 2 is deleted and a clause substituted providing for a wage of Is 7id per hour, with a bonus of 2£d in lieu of Is 5d and a war bonus of 3d.

The Otago and Southland Shop Tailoresses' award is amended as follows:—A minimum wage for workers, including machinists and tailoresses on ladies' work, is fixed at £1 15s per week for the first six months alter completion of apprenticeship. and £2 per week thereafter. Overtime is fixed at time and a-half in the case of weekly workers, rate and a-half in the case of piece-workers. The rate of 9d per hour appearing at the head of the time statements is deleted, lOd per hour being substituted. . The award will operate from September 8. An award is filed in the City Corporation Tramways' Officials' dispute in terms of the agreement arrived at in the Conciliation Council.

In the Dunedin and Suburban Breweries, Bottlers, and Bottle-washers' dispute an award was filed as follows:—The bonus remains unaltered. Wages for bottlers, corkers, paokers, casemakers, and power machine workers are fixed at £3 per week; bottle-washers and other workers at £2 17s 6d, with a bonus of 5s per week in both cases; rate for casual labour Is 6d per hour. 1

An award was filed in the Southland lyuuding Irades and General Labourers' and Drivers' dispute in terms of the recommendations made by the Conciliation Council.

An award was filed as follows in the Dunedin City Corporation Shift Engineers' (\\ aipcri and substations) disDUte:—Rates of pay: Waipori Falls Power Station.—First shift engineer, £5 12s 6d; second, £5 2s 6dt n, lrd ' £ 4 , 17s 6d; four th. £4 12s 6d; others', £4. Halfway Bush.—All engineers £4 17s 6d. A of 5s per week is given in addition. The court's memorandum states: By this award tho court has placcd the shift engineers at Waipori and its sub-sta-tion on the same footing as the same class of employees engaged at tho converter station. The oonrt has also made the award expire contemporaneously with tho award_ covering the converter station staff (April, 1920), in order that in any subsequent application to the court, the staff at both stations may bo dealt with in tho one award. An order was made adding parties to the Otago Drivers' Award.