Wage Rise In Clothing Trade
WELLINGTON, Heb. 28. A Conciliation Council settlement embodying wage increases under the New Zealand Clothing Trades Employees' Award and the New Zealand Dressmakers' and Milliners' Award, has been ratified by th& Court of Arbitration. The minimum wage for journeywomen lias been increased from £4 6s a week to £4 11s. A feinale worker entering the trade, over 21 years of age, is to receive £3 15s 6d a week for the first six months, £4 a week for the second six months, £4 5s a week for the third six months and thereafter at journeywomen's rates. The minimuin wage for second-class chart cutters is increased by 7s 4d to £7s 13s .44, and for stock cutters, trimmers, pressers, examiners and male machinsts byv'6s 6d to £7 7s *6d'a week. For "female- apprentices and-.iimprovers the increase is 2s 6d a wee.k,_ jind fqr^ ^youths^ tlie increases . vary' from ' 3s to' " Male casual workers are to^ receiVe'';inibt less than 4s an hour, an increase of 24d. In its applieation to wage rates, the award is retrospective to February 8. Tha other clauses arp effeetive as from today. The award will continue in' operation for one year.
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Chronicle (Levin), 1 March 1949, Page 6
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