COACHWORKERS’ AWARD

Taranaki Daily News, 6 September 1930, Page 7

COACHWORKERS’ AWARD

I FEW CHANGES IN PROVISIONS. POSITION OF PANEL-BEATERS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. The coach workers’ and motor-body builders’ award issued by the Arbitration Court to-day does not materially depart from the provisions of the expired award except in regard to assem-i biers and machinists. The new award provides that 47 hours shall constitute an ordinary week’s work and be worked between the hours of 7.30 a.m. and 5.30 p.m. on five days of the week and between 7.30 a.m. and noon on one day of the week. Wages shall be paid on an hourly basis. . The wages of journeymen shall be not less than 2s 3d per hour. The minimum wage for helpers rises from £1 2s (id a week to £2 17s 6d a week. Helpers over 21 years of age shall receive Is lOd per hour. Extra helpers aoove the number specified may be taken on at not less than Is lOd an hour. The minimum wage for assemblers shall be Is lid an hour for the first year and 2s Id per hour thereafter.

Employers may, in factories within the Wellington industrial district where mass production is carried on, employ learner assemblers in the trimming shop, who shall be permitted to tack in ready-cut trimming materials at the following wages: For the first six months, Is lid an hour; second six months, 2s Id an hour; thereafter, *2s 3d an hour.

In a memorandum to the award Mr. Justice Frazer says: ‘‘ln the present case the coach and motor-body panelbeater is regarded as a coach worker, not as a sheet metal worker, in the same way as a cabinet-maker is regarded as a furniture worker and not as a carpenter, though he works in wood. In any event the lapse of time since 1925 renders it impossible for the claim of the Amalgamated Engineering Association to succeed on legal ground.”