DRIVERS' DISPUTE.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17119, 14 April 1921, Page 5

DRIVERS' DISPUTE.

I TERMS OP SETTLEMENT. (PUBS ASSOCIATION TELEGKAM.) DUNEDIN', - April 13. | The decision of the Conciliation" Council has- been accepted as a settlement in the drivers' dispute for the Dominion. The hours were fixed at'4B per week —nine hours on five days, and four and a half hours on the day of the weekly half-holiday. All etablo work done in excess of each houra up to four hours per week in the case of one horse drivers and eight hours per week an the case of two house drivers, shall be paid for at the rate of le 7d an hour. Attendance on motor, vehicles up to four hours per week will be paid for at the rate of la 8d per hour. All stable work and attendance on motor vehicles is to be paid, for at ordinary overtime rates. Theminifuin wages of workers were fixed as follows:—Driving and attending one horse, '£3 15s a week; driving or attending two or more horses £3 17a 6di; driving and attending to motor with a carrying- capacity of from scwt to. one ton, £3 18s; driving and attending to motor vehicles of from one ton up to two tons, £4; driving and attending motor vehicles two to three tons, £4 3s; driving and attending motor vehicles of more than three tons, £4 &s 6d. In addition a bonus of ten shillings is to be paid. Overtime for horse drivers is 2s 8d an hour, and (between 10 p.m. and G a.m. 3s an hour. Motor drivers will be paid 2s 4d, and over two tons 2s 6d. Drivers ordered back to work after the tea hour shall be paid a minimum of two hours' pay. For work done on Sundays, Christmas Day, or Good Friday drivers' pay will be 3s Id''an hour, and on any other holiday the overtime pay will be 2s 3d an hour. The houjrs of work for drivers employed by aerated water and cordial makers were fixed at fifty-two a week from November to April inclusive, and forty-four from May to October. Casual horse driveiis are to receive Is lid ■an hour for one horse, and 2s id for two or more horees, and overtime at 3s an hour. Casual drivers are to receive a minimum of four hours' pay for work done. on Sunday, Christmas Day, on Good Friday. The rate of pay is 4a an hour. Youths' pay, eighteen to nineteen years, is £2 a week; nineteen to twenty, £2 Gs; twenty to twenty-one, £2 14s; with overtime at Is GJd an hour. Bakers may employ youths above the age of eighteen at the following rates:—Under eighteen £1 1b and found, or £1 14s a week; eighteen to nineteen, £1 7s 6d and found, or £2 a week; nineteen to twenty. £1 11a and found, or £2 6s; twenty to twenty-one,-£1 19s and found, or £2 14s. •