CONCILIATION COUNCIL.

Colonist, Volume LXII, Issue 15243, 3 December 1919, Page 5

CONCILIATION COUNCIL.

DRIVERS' DISPUTE

The Conciliation Council safe yester-» day to consider matters in connection with the drivers' dispute. Mr W. Mewtori, Conciliation Commissioner, preside ed, and the assessors were: Employers', Messrs T, P'ettit, C. Haggitt, and A; J. Ruff; employees', Messrs T. H. Martin, 13. Schofield, and A. Parland, secretary] of the New Zealand Drivers' Federation. Proposals and counter-proposals wero considered, and after consideration an agreement was reached.

inter alia it was agreed that, except) where otherwise provided, a week'a work shall not exceed 48 hours, exclusive of the time required for necessary , attendance to horses and motor vehicles °, the hours of work for drivers employed by aerated water and cordial makers shall be 52 per week from November Ist to April 30th (inclusive) and 44 per week from May Ist to October 31st (inclusive). Employers shall be at liberty to make special arrangements as to their hours of work with drivers attending early and late trains and steamers, or employed in the collection or delivery of mails. The minimum wages \\vere fixed as under:—Driving and attending one horse, £3 6s; driving and attending two horses, £3 8s 8d; driving and attending motor vehicles with a carrying capacity of from sc\vt to 1 ton, £3 9s; ditto from 1 ton up to 2 tons, £3 11s 6d; ditto from 2 tons up to 3 tons, £3 14s; ditto of more than 3 tons, £3 17s 6d. All staMe work done in excess of the houra provided for, up to four hours per week in the case of one-horse drivers and eight hours per week for two-horse drivers shall bo paid for at the'rate of Is Aid per hour- attendance on motor vehicles up to four hours per week shall be paid for at Is 5-J-d per hour. Casual drivers shall be paid at the rate of Is 6d per hour for a driver driving and attending one horse and Is 8d per now for a driver driving and attending two horses. ' , The following are the holidays to be recognised:—New Year's Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, La bow Day, Anniversary Day, the birthday of the reigning Sovereign, Christmas Day, Uoxing Day, and "the first Monday in August

Overtime shall be paid at the respective rates of Is 10* d and 2s Id per hour. Casual rates of drivers of motor vehicles shall be Is 8S per hour for vehicles of carrying capacity or from ocv/t:to.2.tons, and lslOd per hour tor drivers of vehicles exceeding 2 tons. The rate of pay for youths was agreed to as under:—lß*to 19, £116s per week; 19 to 20, £2 2s per week; 20 to 21, £2 10s per week. Bakers are permitted, to employ youths as horso drivers above 16 years" of a^e at not less than the following wages:—Under-18, 17s 6d per week and found, or £1 10s pec week day pay ; 18 to 19s, £1 3s 6d and found or £1 16s: 19 to 20, £1 7s and found, or £2 2s: from 20 to 21, £1 15s and found, or £2' 10s ; overtime for youths, Is da per Overtime rates for work done in excess of the hours prescribed were faxed at:—Horse drivers, Is 9d per hour; between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. 2s 3d per hour • motor vehicle drivers, Is 10d per hour up to 2 tons; oVer 2 tons 2s per hour: and between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m., 2s 3cf per hour. Drivers ordered back to work after tea hour to . receive a minimum of two hours' pay. The agreement provides, among other thills lor limited preference to unionist^and the Betting up of local committees to deal with disputes. iheio are also a number of general, cxemptio£ term of the award shall be from date of commencement snail be deemed on th- «ettlom«nt arrived at and the«d ompkij^ would contmu, to exist.