CONCILIATION COUNCIL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11686, 1 May 1916, Page 6

CONCILIATION COUNCIL.

■ LOCAL BODIES LABOURERS' AWARD. -. ' Tlie Conciliation Council met this ; ■ to confer a proposed j scfeatile of wages and conditions «in-, ■s erifirig labourers working for tiie j •' H<§nhco-te, AVaimairi and Halswe.l j Comity Councils. . ~ ", Mr" J. R- 'friggs (Conciliation Com'niSioner) presided, and the assessors j ; : _For tho General Labourers j ■{.Vnion. Messrs E. J. Howard, F. Shaw j .j-amT G. Foster; lor the employers—i 1 Messrs J. Leslie.. E. Patterson and : ■?T.' Sisson. >■*. The union's proposals and oounter- '■ proposals of the employers were sub- , nutted. ■ I The parties agreed to clauses conIteinins wages, overtime. luilulny.«, ; 'I fools, termination of agreement and { -undcrrato workers, while matters for concerned the. horns of! ' work, wet places, travelling time, ac- , ■ U-ongiiodation and sanitation, dirty j J p'fees r.nct preference clause. ! THo. following nrinimum rates of! { T'iges. were agreed to:--Tnnnelinen at! 'tunnelling work aud timber work for j poking shafts over 10ft. 1> (3d per hour; Junnelmen at clay tunneling work and mpn in charge of derricks or scaffolding. Is 3d per hour: ail other classes ' ■ oi\ : labour an addition of 10 por cent \yise on the present rate of waprs. pro- . J-ided the amount, does not exceed Is 3d j jior hour. ! > The following holidays wore agreed ( i(tot —Xew Year's Day. Good Friday, j faster Monday. La bom- Tiny. Sljow | JDay, Christmas Day and I'oxinjr Day. I '"Work done on Easter Monday and Show ' piiy to be paid i;.r ;u the rate of! itijno and a haA* and work done on |>tlier holidays to be. paid for at double rate. { The union applied lor a iurty-i'our-Siour week and the employers asked for f?» tforty-eight-hour week. ! :In regard to wet places, the union proposed that when workers are workring: in a vrcti place or .in foul nir six should constitute a dav's work, ,-oight hours to bo paidj'or and half an \ htfur ■to [)c allowed for crib. When \workers arc working in not !o-s two tanehesof water, gum boots shall 1> ( . ,„•„. : -videcl by the employer. " i \ This clause was' prarticnlh- agreed; ■to. with the exception ib.ii. -,li,> conn- | uesired a definition o! vhat ( . n „. ,' j#titutos a wot place. '; ■\ A ' : wrt place - ' -.,;„ defied as a . j ■place whore -'warn.-, 0.1,.,,-, ,\,, th:m I rain, tails upon s worker." I irr rfgnrd to Irar*!!,-- Hmo. ,],e I jimion asked that worker:- e7j^,; oTf „] y, x (the couinV councils vj; 0 are rot resi- ' in the ward in which thW \ •jKjto. be performed should he F ,-,,7] f or j *h# time reasonably o, r,;,„v v j them jm Walking to and from such work at i the rate of four mi'es per hour, nii'ejage to be counted from the central office J«i;-: the council. ■(">lhe countiis protested against this '.minwens being unworkable. | It was agreed that tb,. Halswel! | ; County should pay its employees once I*, month, while the nther councils : jbould- pay fort nijdii lv.