COMPLETE AGREEMENT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 280, 25 November 1937, Page 9

COMPLETE AGREEMENT

PAINTERS’ AND DECORATORS’ DISPUTE ~ [ Per Press Association. ] ’ WELLINGTON, Nov. 24. After a little more than a day’s hearing in Conciliation Council in Wellington, a complete agreement was reached in the New Zealand Painters’ and Decorators’ dispute. The hours of work are to be 40 weekly worked on the first live days of the week. To prevent work being done at week-ends for private individuals at less than award rates, a special clause was inserted making the payment ot double-time rates compulsory for all work done on Saturdays. It will be a breach of the award if any person engages in work on Saturday, Sunday or any of the specified holidays without first obtaining a permit from the Labour Department. Overtime is to be at the same rate as in the existing award—time and ahalf for the first four hours, thereafter or between midnight and 6 a.m., double time. The usual statutory holidays are to be observed, overtime to be paid for work on these days or at week-ends. The rate of wages agreed on was 2s 9d hourly, an increase of 3d. The clause relating to wages will not apply to ticket-writing done by shop, assistants in establishments in which they are employed. So far as wages are concerned, the new award will come into force on December 3, 1937, and have a duration of one year.