WATERSIDERS’ AWARD

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 17946, 3 May 1928, Page 9

WATERSIDERS’ AWARD

Rulings of arbitration court. ** T.l.gr.ph—Pre,. A..o«l«ti.» i;< ' T . . WELLINGTON, May 2. The Arbitration Court has decided, W if*- * nU , mbs , r of fictions stated fl l ., t XT <J P' niOI l 1 the i° int secretaries of the National Disputes Committee, set up under the Waterside Workers’ Award, dated December 1, 1924: Question I—As*to whether the crime gang who started work on the s s Atholh at Wellington at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, October 11, 1927, and ceased worh for the day at 4.30 p.m., and Were ordered back for 8 a.m. on Wednesday, and worked until 4.30 p.m. on that day, ar ®'entitled to be paid for six hours on Tuesday, October 1, and until 5 p m. on Wednesday, October 12. The s.s. Atholl commenced' discharging With other gangs on Monday, October 10? Answer—ln the op'nion of the Court the men employed on the crane gang were entitled to a minimum of six hours’ pay for the day in ouestion. Question 2—As to whether the men employed on the r s. Onihi, on Monday. December 11. 1927, loading general cargo, jn which was included over 100 drums of crude fuel oil, are entitled to be paid oil rates from the time the crude oil first came into the hold, until the finish of the loading. The men wer« na-’d one hour at oil rates —the time taken to load the oil? Answer — No provision is made in the award for a special rate for ' waterside workers handling general cargo in a hold in which crude fuel o ; l is stored. Question 3—As to whether two men emplovfl.i on the wharf at Miramar b\ C WVIW nt thp s.s. Wa’piatn. and who, when the ship finished nt 2.15 p.m. on Saturday, .lanuary 1. 1928. were discharged nt that time and paid up to 3 p.m., t’his pay to include the trnve'l;ng time as allowed by clause 14 fb) of the Award, are entitled to he paid the minimum provided bv clause 16. and the travelling time in addition? Answer —The Court has on at least two former occasions (Rook of Awards Vol. Z.X.T V.. n 12 . and Volume X.X.V.. a.u. 296) hokl that tlm two hours minimum payment includes payment, for travelling time. Tt, is immaterial whether +lns travel I’"no - tim" ■= the time actually occupied in travnlliwt, or a fixed time allowance for the .-journey.

“In mv opinion this case is quite different from tUo Gisborne ease recorded in Volume X.X.T.V. p. 126,” stated Mr

A. L. Monteith. ; n dissenting from the opinion of a majority of the Court on question 3. “I cannot agree that an allowance made to men for trnvo-lma outside the employment, can, without any provision in the Award, reduce the ordered down minimum of two hours. No two hours’ provision exists in this Award to alter or reduce this ordered down minimum in any manner whatsoever.