ARBITRATION COURT.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 8665, 4 July 1906, Page 3

ARBITRATION COURT.

+ _ FURNITURE TRADES' AWARD. The Arbitration Oouorfc has made into an award the agreement enteired into by the Chxisbohuroh United Furniture Trades' Union and the employers in. the trade in Chrisbelrarch. The award provides that forty-four ho-ura shall constitute a week's work, four hours, ending at nootn, being worked on .Saturday, amd eight hours on other d/ays. The minimum rates of wages shall be as follow :^— Cabioietmakejns, uphoilstjereTa, turners, frame-makers, ! polishers and -machinists, £2 16s per weok, calculated at the rate of Is 3d per liourj na&ttress-make-rs, 8s 6d per day of eight hours, or £2 6s 9d per week. Upholsterer's work shall include all kinda of bedding, planning and layiag of new carpets,- linoleum, etc., but mattress-making nor the taking up and laying down, again of old carpets, linoleum, etc., that being unskilled work, and no* within the award. A youth w!m> has finished his tefftm as apprentice may be employed as an improver for twelve months at a wage of Is per hour, and for a further twelve months at Is ljd per hour. Wages shall be paid "weekly. Overtime work shall be between 6 p.m. •and 1 7.30 a.m., time and a quarter to be paid up to 9 p.m., amd time and a hair from 9 p.m. to 7.30 a.m. Double time shall be paid on Sundays, Good Friday and Christmas Day, and tsme and a half on Easter Monday, the Sovereign's Birthday, New Year's Day Anniversary Day, Boxing Day and Labour Day. Apprentices shall serve five years and be indentured, three months' trial being allowed before indenturing. They shall be paid 5s per week for the first year, and the wage shall be increased by 6s each year. The proportion of apprentices shall be one to every three journeymen or fraction of three. No piecework shall be permitted. Travelling expenses and time when travelling shall be p^d by the employer. No man shall rnJake goods for sale on his own account while he is in full time employment. Boys shall be employed as the employer thinks fit for certain work. Preference ehall be given to unionists on the usual terms, an employment book shall be kept by the Union ; there shall be no discrimination against members of the Union, and no distinction between members and non-members employed together. Permits shall be given to incompetent workers. Employers shall keep lists of employees and wages. The award ehall apply only to employers within a radius of twenty-five miles of the Christchurch Post Office, and shall bo in force for three years from June 1, 1906.