CLERICAL STAFFS’ AWARD
EMPLOYEES OF COUNTIES
CONCILIATION AGREEMENT
(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. A complete agreement was reached yesterday by the Conciliation Council which considered the County Council’s administrative staffs’ dispute.
The award which covers the Northern, Wellington, Marlborough, Nelson and Otago industrial districts, comes into force as from last Monday and will expire on January 31, 1940.
The employees of county councils, road boards, river boards, and drainage boards are governed by its provisions, but the men being paid £350 or more a year, apart from overtime, are excluded.
The wages clause agreed on provides for a commencing wage of £65 a year for men and other wages graded up to £312 a year in the eleventh year.
The wage scale for women provides for a commencing wage of £52 a year, with increases up to £169 a year in the eighth year.
A 40-hour week was agreed on, with a provision that in certain emergencies, 80 hours may be worked in a' fortnight. There are to be the usual public holidays with, in addition, two weeks’ annual holiday.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19777, 3 November 1938, Page 19
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181CLERICAL STAFFS’ AWARD Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19777, 3 November 1938, Page 19
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