AWARDS MADE
BOILERMAKERS AND BUS DRIVERS oy i'e.egrrpn Association WELLINGTON, December 21. The award for boilermakers, iron ship and bridgebuilders provides for a 40-hour week on five days. One night shift in each 24 hours is permitted. The overtime rates are time and a half for the first four hours and double time thereafter. Three shillings extra is payable per shift for night work. The wages are 2/5S an hour. Mr A. L. Monteith dissented, considering that the rate should be 2/6.
The New Zealand passenger transport drivers’ award is amended by reducing bus drivers’ hours from 96 to 80 a fortnight, providing a weekly maximum of 44 instead of 52. Servicecar drivers’ hours are reduced from 96 to 88 a fortnight, and from 52 to 48 in any one week.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20607, 22 December 1936, Page 13
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131AWARDS MADE Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20607, 22 December 1936, Page 13
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