WORKERS’ CONDITIONS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19434, 21 October 1925, Page 9

WORKERS’ CONDITIONS

EMPLOYMENT ON FARMS AGRICULTURAL WORKERS’ UNION SCHEDULE. At the monthly meeting of the Wellington, Wanganui and Hawke’s Bay Agricultural, Pastoral and Domestic Workers’ Union, held in Palmerston, the following standard rates of wages, time worked and holidays were fixed. A certificate will be given to all workers on application to the secretary, to be filled in by a responsible employer, stating if tho worker is of first, second or third class experience. Married fencer, ploughman, gardener, shepherd, with cottage, firewood, cow: first class experience £3 10s; second class £3. Married general farm worker, with cottage, firewood, cow: £3; £2 10s. Single fencer, ploughman, gardener, shepherd: £3 10s; £3. Married couples, woman cook laundress, man gardener: £4; £3 10s. Married couples, woman cook general, man gardener: £4 ss; £4. Married couples, woman cook for men, man milk and gardener: £4; £3 10s. Married couples, woman cook laundress, man milk and kill: £4. Married couples, woman cook general, man milk and rouscabout: £3 10s; £3. Cowman, gardener, lawns, flowers: £3; £2 10s. Cowman, rouseabout: £2 10s; £2. Cowman, rouseabout, over 60: £1 ss; £l. Youth under 19 years: £1 10s; £1 ss. Youth under 17 years: £1 ss; £l. Casual day work, Is lOd per heur. Married couples to be provided with

detached bed and sitting room, with fireplace and all found. All single ■workers to be found with board and lodgings. All time worked over 48 hours in six days to be charged time and a-half. Cowmen to work 52 hours in seven days. All full half-holidays to bo granted to all. If half-holiday not allowed, one full week’s wages to be paid every three months. Half days paid for extra if not worked three months. Rates for domestic workers were fixed as follows:—Man cook £3 10s, £3, £2 10s; woman cook general £2 10s, £2 ss, £2; woman cook laundress £2 ss, £2, £1 15s; house parlourmaid £2, £1 15s, £1 10s; parlourmaid £2, £1 15s, £1 10s; housemaid £1 15s, £1 16s, £1 ss; pantry-, maid £1 12s 6d, £1 J os, £1 ss; nursery housemaid £1 12s 6d, £1 10s, £1 ss; lady help £1 10s, £1 ss, £1; girl under 17 £1 ss, £l, 15s. Overtime to bo charged for time worked o?cr 48 hours per week at the rate of time and a-half. In lieu of allowing one full day’s holiday of 24 hours in each week, it can be arranged by mutual agreement for an employer to allow any worker leave of absence on full pay of fourteen days for every period of three months during which the day’s holiday is so suspended, or in the event of tho service not continuing for three months, for a period proportionate to the length of service. Employees who work Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year’s Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, shall be paid double pay. All car or bus ijares to b« paid both ways from railway station by employer. Railway fares to be paid by employee.