CONCILIATION COUNCIL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12726, 22 August 1919, Page 6

CONCILIATION COUNCIL.

LIVERY STABLE DISPUTE. 'Tho Conciliation Council sat to-day to hear a dispute between the Canterbury motor-car, horse drivers and livery stable employees and the employers. The assessors for the employers were Messrs G. P. Soott and W, Hayward, and for the union Mr Hiram Hunter. Tho union, in its demands, asked that forty-eight hours should constitute a week’s work, and that any time worked in excess of eight hours per day on the six days of the week, Sundays excepted, should he paid for at overtime rates. A minimum wage of —3 10s per week was asked, to be paid weekly, in the employer’s time. It was also asked that no deduction should be made from the weekly wage, save from time lost through the worker’s own default. It was asked that all time worked in excess of eight hours per day, Monday to Saturday inclusive, should be paid for at the rate of time and a half for the first two hours, thereafter double time; to be calculated day by day, each day to stand by itself. All time worked on Sundays should be paid for at time and a half up to eight hours; over eight, hours, double time; any worker called open to work on Sunday to receive a minimum of four hours’ work or four hours’ pav. The following holidays were asked for ; —Hew New Year’s Dav and the day after, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Labour Day, King’s Birthday, Christmas Day, Boxing Day and Anniversary Day. An extra day’s pay was asked for any employees required to work on any of those days. The following wages were asked for youths:—Eighteen to nineteen years or age, £1 IRs per week; nineteen to twenty years, £2 2s per week; twenty to twenty-one years, £-2 10a per week. It was agreed to adhere to the hours of the old award, which are seventy hours for a long week and sixty hours for a short week, end to fix tho minimum wage at £3 10s per week. Overtime wus fixed for at the rat-s of time and a half for all hours worked in excess of tho?e_ stipulated in the old award. The danse in the old grwnrd relating to holidays was adhered to, also *h© clause relating to tho employment of youths. The following firms were struck off tho list as parties to the awardCusdiu and Co., Dnvauchelle: H. Matson and Co., Christchurch: and ,T. P. Newman, Ashburton. The new award will come into operation oti September 1, and will remain in operation for two years.