AWARDS FILED

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18735, 13 December 1922, Page 7

AWARDS FILED

further judgments of the Arbitration Court m local matters became available yes. terday. lu tlie case of the Otago and Southland lime and cement workers’ award the courj has fixed the following wages:—Burners amt engineers’ assistants. Is ll|d per hour; mill greasers and coal oriel's, Is 10|d; bag- < ters, Is XOid; feeders, Is 9|d; all other workers, Is B|d. Overtime is to be paid lor at the rate of time and a-half for the first tour aours, and thereafter double time. A special clause provides for the payment of Os per hour to men employed in rotary:*?:’ '** kilns and men employed shovelling ovor-io flow material into lime feed screw conveyer. '.Hie award came into force on December 4, and the wages fixed are not subject to * variation until May 1, 1923. In its memoranduni the court says: Ibis award follows mo recommendation of the Conciliation „. Council, except that the court has. fixed wages and overtime, and made provision •; for special work. The court’s note to the canister workers* ~ : award is as follows: —“The court fixed wages, . and overtime rates, and reinserted the pro- : vision relating to female labour and the employment of boys and youths. The court was requested by the employers to reduce. the rates of wages payable to adult workers, but in view of the lact that corresponding rates were agreed to in 1920 and that n 0,,, evidence was forthcoming to justify it in making a reduction below that warranted. by the fall in the cost of living, it could not see ills way to accede to this request. , In other respects the award follows the , , recommendations of the Conciliation Council, which the parties agreed to The * minimum wage fixed is Is 10|d per flour,’ x.ie award came into force on December & 4. * - .-y.' Xhe court hied an order amending tha- : ,; i preference clausa in the waterside workers’. • * award so as to provide for the payment of i a contribution of Is per week for the first ’ monui s membership, and thereafter 13s per , quarter or £2 per annum at the option of.-, the member, in lieu of £1 per annum is in the old award. *' T Hie application made by the employers f in ui© freeaing works employees’ award v lor a supplementary award to cover tha'i new system of subdivision of labour in the t.* ij|» slaughtering of animals hss been refused *r- . by the court,'