ARBITRATION COURT

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20503, 22 August 1936, Page 8

ARBITRATION COURT

JUDGMENTS GIVEN By Telegraph—Press Association WELLINGTON, August 21. By judgments to-day, the Arbitration Court gives a 40-hour week o employees in the various departments of the Wellington City Council, also the Christchurch City abattoirs, the daily hours to be subject to arrangement. The Court refused to amend the Canterbury gardeners’, nursery rnd landscape award on the ground that the industry was much affected by weather conditions. CONCILIATION COUNCIL PAINTERS’ DISPUTE By Teiearapb wte&s- Aasocia'ion WELLINGTON, August 21. Agreement on several points was reached in the Conciliation Council when the hearing was resumed of ae dispute between the New Zealand Federated Painters’ and Decorators’ Association of Workers and the New “Sealand Federated Master Painters’, Decorators’ and Signwriters’ Association of Employers. Mr W. J. Wakelin (Conciliation Commissioner) presided. The principal clauses that remain to be considered are wages and hours. It was agreed to include poster and display artists in the classification of workers. Overtime, as agreed, is to be paid for at the rate of time and a half for the first four hours, and double time thereafter, and all work performed between midnight and 6 a.m. is also to be paid for at the rate of double time. Recognised holidays were agreed upon as follows: New Year’s Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Labour Day. Christmas Day. Boxing Day, and if a picnic is held, the day of the painters’ annual picnic. In any locality where any of the above holidays are not generally r '~ served. another holiday may be observed by mutual arrangement between employer and workers. In regard to country work, a clause in the award operating in 1931 was adopted. Men applying tar or black pairt with a tar base on roofs are to be paid Id an hour extra. Any worker required to work on a swing stage or bosun’s chair is to be paid 1/- a day extra. The award is to operate throughout the Northern Taranaki, Wellington, Nelson, Canterbury, Marlborough, Otago and Southland districts.