RAILWAYMEN’S WAGES.
MARRIED MEN’S RATES. SLIGHT INCREASES ANNOUNCED. X WELLINGTON, March 11. The minimum rate of pay - for married men in the railway service is slightly increased as the result of the regulations which have just been gazetted. The new rates are made rcstrospective to April 1 last. . ■ , c Members who were in receipt ot an annual salary of £2OB 13s Id are now to receive £2lO 8s Id, those on a weekly wage of £4 will be given £4 os'Bd. those earning 13s 4d per day will be entitled to 13s sd, while those whose hourly pay is Is 9 34-44 d per hour will get Is lOd. A further provision is that where members of the second division are absent from headquarters overnight, the lodging allowance in certain cases is increased from 8s to 10s. This alteration is to operate as from November 14 last. Regarding the payment of overtime for holiday work, the regulations add the King’s Birthday and Labour Day to the existing list for division 1 staff. Where the first division staff are brought back for work on Sunday - , or duty on Christmas Day, Anzac Dav, Good Friday, the King’s Birthday, or Labour Day, the minimum time for which payment will be made is four hours.
Members employed in the locomotive workshops and fitters, turners, boilermakers, blacksmiths, strikers, apprentices, holders-up, assisting boilermakers, labourers assisting fitters, turners or boilermakers, and shop enginemen employed in locomotive running sheds will, in respet of any time worked between the hours of 9 p.m. and 6 a.m., forming part of their ordinary “day shift,” be paid time and a-half, subject to certain conditions governing the payment of all time worked during a “ night shift.” Every employee in the traffic branch (division 2) who, being on his home station, is booked off duty for less than eight hours between shifts shall be granted two hours standing time at his ordinary rate of pay, provided, however, that any such period of two hours shall not be taken into account in computing the overtime. _
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Otago Witness, Volume 1851, Issue 3809, 15 March 1927, Page 32
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341RAILWAYMEN’S WAGES. Otago Witness, Volume 1851, Issue 3809, 15 March 1927, Page 32
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