LOCAL BODY LABOURERS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19141, 9 October 1936, Page 5

LOCAL BODY LABOURERS

WAGES AND HOURS AUCKLAND AGREEMENT <Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this.dayAn agreement drawn up by the Local Bodies Labourers' Union and the Auckland City Council covering the employees Of the latter body was ratified at a meeting oi the union at the Trades Hall yesterday, which was attended by 5A> members. The 40-hour week and eight-hour day will now bo worked, Saturday work being permitted on essential services, such as street cleaning, etc., and the men are to work the hours necessary without the payment of overtime, provided it does not mean working more than 40 hours a week, or eight hours in one day. The hourly rates of pay will be:--General labourers, 2s 3d; quarry and scoria pit men, hammer and drill workers, 2s 4d; leading hands, concrete and stone work, 2b sd; gangers and machine drillers, 2s 6d; destructor employees, leading hands, 2s 7£d; firemen and chargers, 2s 6d; and receivers and refuse handlers, 2s 4*d. Weekly rates for convenience attendants will be £4 for males and £3 for females. A female bath attendant is to be paid £3, and tip men and weighbridge attendants £4. Overtime is to be paid at the rate of time and a half for the first three hours and double time thereafter. Where a worker attends at a job, but does not work on that day, he is to receive pay as for two hours. Any employee called out to do special work is to "receive a minimum of 2* 6d. A break of ten minutes is to be allowed for morning tea.