WAGE INCREASE
JOURNEYMEN HAIRDRESSERS P.A. AUCKLAND. June 4. The minimum wage for journeymen hairdressers or women employed on men's work was raised by 3s 2d to £7 a week by an Arbitration Court award issued to-day for the northern industrial district. Casual workers are given id an hour increase, their wages to be not less than 3s 9d an hour. No casual worker is to be engaged for less than four hours continuously. Closing hours remain the same but it is stipulated that no customer be taken into the chair later than five minutes before the barber is due to cease work, nor must the barber be kept /working more than five minutes aftef, the closing hour. The award operates from Monday for two years.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26790, 5 June 1948, Page 5
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125WAGE INCREASE Otago Daily Times, Issue 26790, 5 June 1948, Page 5
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