WAGES INCREASED

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25306, 17 August 1943, Page 4

WAGES INCREASED

FEMALE FUR-WORKERS Increases in the minimum rates of pj»» for female apprentices, improvers, ana _ journeywomen have been granted by a new award for Northern, Taranaki, Welling* ton, Canterbury, Otago, and Southland fur workers, issued bv the Arbitration Court. In the memorandum Mr Justice Tyndall said that the court was bound to comply with the Economic Stabilisation Emergency Regulations, 1942, but that there had been an anomalous difference in the ratea prescribed for female workers In the clothing trades awards and the fur workers’ awards. , , , , _ In recent years there had been a close relationship in the rates for female workers under those awards, said the judge Increases were granted last December for similar classes of workers, in the clothing trades awards The court considered that the anomaly should be adjusted, and had incorporated In the new award the rates claimed for females. It could not, however, recognise any similar grounds for varying the minimum rates for male workers. The rates for female apprentices allowed by the award range from 18s a week to £2 6s. Journeywomen s wages are £2 15s. The male workers’ rates are unchanged, journeymen’s wages being £5 10s a week, and the rates for boys and vouths ranging from £1 to £4 a week. The rates are subject to the cost-of-livinf bonuses. The hours are to be 40 a week. Overtime is to be paid at the rate of time and a-half for the first three hours and double time thereafter. Double time covers certain holiday work, and an annual holiday of one week on full pay is aUowed.