ARBITRATION COURT.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 9036, 17 September 1907, Page 4

ARBITRATION COURT.

ITIMARU PAINTERS' AND DECORATORS' AWARD. „ An award whioh will take effect from September 18, 1907, ,till January 18, 1909, has been filed with the Clerk of Awards of the Arbitration Court. The noons of labour are to be from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on. five days of the week, with jtone hour for dinner, and from o a.m. >to noon on Saturdays. It is optional on 'Ifche part of employers to arrange wirh Ifcheir employees to work from 8 a.m. to 4 A.m. on five days of the week during May, June, July and August in each wear. , The minimum wage for a comapetent journeyman is fixed at Is 3d an fuour, and the usual provision is made tot workers not competent to earn thav J rate. Overtime is to be paid for at be rate of time and a quarter for the j trst four hours and time and a half af- i kerw&rds, with time and a half for all irprk performed between noon and inidnigttt on Saturdays. Journeymen W apprentices employed upon country (rork are to .be, paid their travelling exMexuses 'or conveyed free of charge to »nd from their work, and are to re- •! Baive.iti a day additional payment. It ! B made optional for men engaged on country work to work two hours a day 1 prertime at ordinary rates, Saturdays expected. Suburban work is defined as Work which is done outside a three jiniles 1 radius froVn Timaru Post Office, Irad is not " country work." Where the employer does not convey workmen »o the work, 6d a day additional is to be paid. One apprentice is allowed to •Btety three journeymen. The term of apprenticeship is five years, the weekly Syment rising annually as follows: — 6d, lOs. 15s, £1, £1 ss. 'Apprentices jjrnay with their previous em|soyerv: after their indentured period, «b improvers, at a minimum wage of 61 10s a week, for thirteen months five usual preference clause is inserted, ivith provision for an " employ mer.t l>ook, and the following holidays are lxed:-~New Year's Day, Good Friday, i Blaster 1-^Monday, Christmas Day and [iabouf • Day. The award, which em>odies without alteration the reconitnendation of the Conciliation Boarc in Vn earlier dispute, is limited in its Operation to the bounties of Geraldine, Mackenzie, Levels and Waimate.