PAINTERS’ DISPUTE

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20894, 25 November 1937, Page 11

PAINTERS’ DISPUTE

COMPLETE AGREEMENT REACHED By Telegraph—Press Association WELLINGTON, November 24. After little more than a day’s hearing in a Conciliation Council, complete agreement was reached In the New Zealand Painters and Decorators dispute. The hours of work are to be 40 weekly worked on the first five days of the week. , To prevent work being done at weekends for private individuals at less than award rates, a special clause has been inserted making the payment of double time rates compulsory for all work done on Saturdays. It will be a breach of the award If any person engages in work on Saturday, Sunday or any other of the specified holidays without first obtaining a permit from the Labour Department. Overtimes is to be at the same rate as i ’. the existing award, time and a half for the first four hours and thereafter or between midnight and 6 a.m. double time. Th" usual statutory holidays are to be observed. Overtime is to be paid for work on these days or at week-ends. The rate of wages agreed on were: 2/9 hourly, an increase of 3d. The clause relating to wages will not apply to ticket-writing done by shop assistants in establishments in which they are employed. So far as wages are concerned, the new award will come into force cn December 3, 1937, and have a duration of one year.