SUNDAY PAY RATES
DOUBLE TIME CLAIMED CITY TRAMWAYMEN £2500 BACK PAY INVOLVED ( p<*r Pross Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. The sum of £2500 in retrospective pay will be at issue in a case to come before the Arbitration Court at its next sitting in Christchurch, probably next month. The court will be required to give a ruling on the rate at which the tiaflic stall’ of the Christchurch Tramway Board is to be paid for Sunday work. If the court should rule in favour of the Tramway Union, which contend., that payment should be made at double rates, the Tramway Board would probably be faced with the payment of extra money, retrospective to July, 1936, and an annual increase in the total wages amounting to more than £IOOO.
The contention of the union is that the present agreement specifying time and a half for Sunday work was overruled by a clause in the Finance Act (1936), which specified a return to the 1931 conditions in the case of workers Governed by awards or industrial agreements. This question of Sunday rates' of pay has been at issue m a number of New Zealand tramway services.
In Wellington, it was decided to pay double time, but this decision was by resolution of the council, and no judgment of the court was involved.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19622, 3 May 1938, Page 5
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219SUNDAY PAY RATES Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19622, 3 May 1938, Page 5
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