NEW BAKERS’ AWARD FILED

Taranaki Daily News, 5 April 1927, Page 7

NEW BAKERS’ AWARD FILED

MINIMUM WAGE QUESTION FIXED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. A new award affecting bakers and pastrycooks in the Northern, Wellington, Canterbury, Otago and Southland districts has been filed in the Arbitration Court. The hours of labour have been fixed at 46 weekly. Any excess of 10 hours a day shall be paid for as overtime, even if the total number of hours for the week does not exceed 46. Double time rates must, be paid employees for work done earlier than the hour prescribed for starting—4 a.m. for bakers and 5 a.m. for pastrycooks. Minimum wages were fixed at £5 10s for foreman bakers or pastrycooks, £5 for journeymen bakers or pastrycooks, bakers’ labourers £4 0s 6d, and for jobbers not less than 19s per day of eight hours, or 2s 6d an hour if for less than eight hours’ work. Wages for junior labourers, between 18 years and 19, were fixed at £2 2s 6d, for 19 years and under 20 at £2 10s, for 20 years and under 21 at £3, and for all over 21 years at labourers’ rates.

Four years was fixed as the term of apprenticeship for females, the minimum weekly rate of wages being £1 2s Od for the first six months, with an Increase of 3s 9d per week at the beginning of each subsequent six months. At the end of four years females shall be paid at least three-quarters of journeymen’s wages. Females may be employed in unskilled work at a weekly rate of £1 2s 6d for th© first six months, with an increase of 5s per week at the beginning of each subsequent six months and at the end of two years the minimum weekly wage shall bo £2 ss.