STONEMASONS’ AWARD
* PROVISION FOR PORTY-HOUR WEEK The new award for stonemasons which will take effect on October 3 provides for a 40-hour week, although the workers’ representatives were pressing for a 35-hour week. The work will be done between 7.30 a.m. and 5 p.m. on five days in the week. The wages fixed by the Arbitration Court are as follows (an hour): Stonemasons, 2s lOJd; head polisher, 2s 7£d; polisher, saw-tenders, and cranedrivers, 2s s£d; all other workers, 2s 4d. Overtime will be paid for at the rate of time-and-a-half for the first four hours and at double rates thereafter. Holidays will be taken on Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year’s Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Anzac Day, Labour Day, and the King’s Birthday. Though payment for holidays is not usually granted to workers on hourly rates of wages who are not governed by the Factories Act, this is being done, since both classes of worker are frequently employed by the same employer. Other provisions are for the employer to provide all tools, and the prohibition of piece-work.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22515, 24 September 1938, Page 15
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178STONEMASONS’ AWARD Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22515, 24 September 1938, Page 15
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