WATERSIDERS’ PAY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 111, 15 May 1942, Page 3

WATERSIDERS’ PAY

COST-01-LIVING BOM S | (P.A.) Wellington. May j \i Commenting on a statment that general order had been issued by t Waterfront Control Commission' pi viding for 4d an hour flat rate j crease in watersiders’ wages, ; official of the Commission said the i ?ase was not in addition to th awarded by the Arbitration Court I the recent order, but was a corr • i spending basis necessary owing to t i difficulty of computing the amou • i payable in the cost of living bonus ' the cases of men who work for a nui • i ber of different employers. Compi j hensive returns for the first s • i months of last year showed that t ! Court’s first cost of living bonus wor 1 ed out at 2-td an hour oxer ordina j and overtime rates. The Cour . second cost of living bonus ord( when worked out on a man's hours f ■ a six-monthly period, was found to i I'd an hour. The first cost of livii bonus therefore was represented 1 the additional 2kl and the seco; bonus is to be represented by l£d ; ' hour.