AWARD IN PAINTING TRADE

Taranaki Daily News, 1 September 1927, Page 7

AWARD IN PAINTING TRADE

AGREEMENT IN TARANAKI. CONCILIATION PROCEEDINGS. Complete agreement between employers’ and workers’ representatives was reached yesterday in an origi'nal application for a Taranaki award for painters, decorators and paperhangers discussed before the Conciliation Commissioner (Mr. P. Hally) in New Plymouth. The assessors for the employees were Messrs. A. E. Bland, H. McEwen and A. E. South, and for the employers Messrs. J. B. Harwood, E. Clow and Vai. Duff. The new award, which will have to be ratified by the Arbitration Court, is on the lines of the award in force practically throughout the Dominion. Hours have been fixed at 44 a week, divided into eight-hour days, worked between 7.30 a.m. and 5 p.m., and, on the halfholiday, between 7.30 a.m. and noon. Wages are 2s 3d an hour, with overtime at time and a-half for the first four hours and double time thereafter. The usual public holidays are provided for and there are the usual clauses regarding payment for country work,.preference, under-rate workers, etc. Where an under-rate worker is employed at wages lees than the ordinary rate prescribed it will now be required that he should be paid the wages provided under the award, or else it will be necessary for him to obtain an incompetent workers’ certificate. The number of undek-rate workers employed by one employer must not exceed the proportion of one in five fully paid tradesmen. It was agreed that any worker substantially employed by one employer should not perform any work covered by the award except for his own employer.

The award will operate from September 30 and will continue in force until October 11, 1928. It is understood the Arbitration .Court will sit in New Plymouth on September 28.