ENGINE-DRIVERS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 264, 6 November 1937, Page 8

ENGINE-DRIVERS

TERMS OF NEW AWARD [ Per Press Association. ] WELLINGTON, Nov. 5. A new award governing enginedrivers and their assistants in the Wellington, Taranaki, Nelson and Marlborough provinces has been made by the Court of Arbitration. The award is based on the decisions of the Conciliation Council earlier this year which reached a complete agreement. The principal of the new provisions are for higher wages, annual holidays where there were no annual holidays before, a weekly rate of pay, inclusion of men in charge of electrical machinery and internal and internal combustion engines as well as those* in charge of steam engines previously included. The award provides for a 40-hour five-day week between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. except, in factories where conditions are otherwise. Wages are as follow: Men required to have a first-class certificate, traction or locomotive certificate, drivers of locomotives of steam or other power or road rollers and certificated winding enginedrivers, £5 ss. Men in charge of electrically-driven plants over 50 h.p. and internal combustion engines over 20 h.p. and men required to hold a second-class stationary engine certificate, £5. Firemen, stokers, greasers, watchmen and workers in charge of engines or boilers where no certificate is required, £4 15s. Drivers of steam-driven cranes or winches or both where a first-class . certificate is required, £5 ss, where a second-class certificate is required £s,' and where no certificate is required £4 15s. Shift workers with a first-class certificate, £5 12s 6d; shift workers with a second-class certificate, £5 7s 6d; uncertificated shift workers, £5 2s 6d. County Council employees and traction engine and roller drivers, £1 Is a day; winch drivers, 18s 6d a day; men in charge of eiectrically-driven plants over 50 h.p. or internal combustion engines over 20 h.p., £1 a day. Overtime rate, lime and a-half for the first four hours and double time thereafter. The holidays’ clause decrees that in the case of factories, works or industries, including sawmills, enginedrivers and assistants shall be given the same holidays as are generally observed in the works, or else pay must be at double time. Workers regularly employed on shift work must be allowed two working weeks’ holi-

day a year on full pay and all others must be allowed one week’s holiday on full pay after 12 months’ service with one employer.