GASWORKS EMPLOYEES’ DISPUTE
NEW DOMINION AWARD (United Press Association) WELLINGTON, June 17. A new Dominion gasworks (more than 12,000,000 cubic feet output) Employees’ Award has been issued by the Court of Arbitration. Wages, which were one of the subjects referred to the Court, bave been increased slightly. The gasworks affected are at Dannevirke, New Plymouth, Hawera, Wanganui, Palmerston North, Oamaru, Invercargill, Greymouth, Westport, Nelson, Blenheim, Whangarei, Auckland, Birkenhead, Hamilton, Gisborne, Hastings, Wellington, Christchurch and Timaru.
The award is unusually long and contains many special provisions for wages and conditions to meet local conditions. The workers’ claim for a 40-hour week has been granted to some workers, but a 44-hour week is prescribed for the others.
The new provision is, for two weeks’ annual holiday for shift workers and one week’s annual holiday for other workers, with pay in both cases.
The point in dispute was extra payment for workers in hot places, and there appears in the award a clause providing that workers employed in places where the temperature is 110 degrees or more shall be paid 3d an
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Southland Times, Issue 23538, 18 June 1938, Page 8
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