ARBITRATION AWARDS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 531, 11 June 1909, Page 11

ARBITRATION AWARDS.

WELLINGTON DISTRICT BAKERS. An award of tho Arbitration Court has been filed in connection-with the dispute between the Wellington Bakers' Workers' Unibh/atid,the. following employers :—J?. AHdibws, Bishop and Phillip, W. Fr-eemah,- ft. Taylor, H. Oldham, F. H: ElKson, J. &d----ber aid Co., Ltd., S.' Scott,- J. Towsey, W. H. Philp W. Macklin Brothers, J. fi. Mowbray, Thomas Rowell, jtu».-, W. Noad; J. M'Doagall, Drapery Importing Company, Kifkcaidie ahd' StaihsV — Hull, and Mrs.. K.' Grimmott (Wellington), Alfred Kerr, W. I. Skiltoh, and Furgut, and August (Bfootljfi), H, Starr (Berhamporo), W. GrantfraTn-(Lowcr-Hutt), J. Gould (Martori and Feild-" uig), J. Nidhdlas (Marion), W. Cotton (Palmerston North), A, Whitehead (Palmerston North and Foilding). ; The award' provides that the working hours shall bo 48 per week, the hours for starting shall-,not be earlier than 6 a-ffiV on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thnrwlays, and Fridays, and i a.m. on Mondays and In cases of emergehcy,- or oil holidays, stanfing time ■ shall bo. agreed, upon between' the employer 1 , arid the forenian. Oterthrie (thne and a quarter for the first three hours, and time and a half afterwards) shall be calculated on any excess of 48 hours per week, any excess of 10" hour's per day", and any time worked after 1 p.m. on the half-holi-day. Now Year's Day, Christm-frs Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Bang's Birthday, and Labour Day' shall bo observed fts holidays. Timo worked on Christmas Dav, Good Friday, Of Sunday, shall he- paid for ! at double rates, and work flrt the other days shall, bo paid- for at trine and a quarter. The minimum rate of wages to be paid to pastrycooks shall , df, first h'and f £3 par week; second hand; £2 10s.; table hand,- £2 Ss.-' jobbers, not less than 10s. per day of. eight hours, or £2 105., • if ehgaged by'th'e Week'. O'fio apprentice .may be employed' for each journeyman, bnthot mora thari; three apprentices shall bo allowed in ono shop.. Apprentices shall be paid,l2s; 6d. .for the first sis months, 15s:, for "tho second,"l7s, 6d, for the third, 205," for the fourth., .225. 6d, for the fifth, 255. .for the sixth, 275. fid. for the Seventh, and 30s. for the eighth. ■■-■■• Tho period-pf apprenticeship shall be four years, including three months' '.-..probation. Where an apprentice has to board with an employer, the sum of 7s. 6d, pet-,week shall be allowed for tho first year 1 s hoard, 10s. for the second, 12s. 6d. for the third, and 15s. for the fourth. Permits are provided for, and a clause makes it necessary for every employer to.-keep a time-book in ihis hakehouse. Females shall not bo -allowed to manufacture goods in the bakehouse, or to do any hot-plate work, but they may be employed in paoking and finishing small goods; and cleaning fruit... .Preference to unionists is a condition of the award, and, in order to terminate an engagement, ono. week's . notice on either side shall he given. Not less than half-ah-hour shall be : allowed for ~■ breakfast, and three-quarters of an honr for dinner, unless special circumstances necessitate a mutual arrangement. No man or hoy shall work longer than four and a half hours before breakfast..' An employee may, where necessary, board with his employer, provided that he is riot charged more than 15s. per wwk. An employer . may provide, meals for employees' at the. following meals por day ,7s. 6*d. per week; three meals per day, 10s.- per week. The. award shall'apply to pastrycooks and to those ehiployin'g workers pastrycooks. \ The award operates from Jitne 9 last, and continues in force nntil June 9, 1911. WANCANUI BUTOHER3. An agreement between the Wanganui Butchers' Industrial TJiliOn Of Workers and a number of employers'has been filed with the Clerk of Awards, Wellingfoh,, and it is that the 'agreement "should be forwarded to the Arbitration Court, and that j the conditions should be embodied in' an industrial .award. . '■■'",' Tho firms concerned in the agreement are; Messrs. Senior and Bennett, Bristol and Caddy, John Calver, C. Heinold, Ludlam and Ijawson, Mitchell and Co., Waiiganui Meat Freezing Co., Ltd., Sherman and Son, R.' Staddon, R. Davis, and Trickor Bros;, all of Wanganui.'. •"•■ ' The more, important clauses of the agre&taent provide that: The hours of labour shall be 56 per week, and work shall cease not later than 10 p.m. on Saturdays (except in the'case of pork butchers, who .may work until 10.30 p.m.). Each employer shall fix a. schedule of hours for iiis-.•employees; and shall submit it to the, union for approval. The minimum wages, to be paid in cash, without deduction, aro fixed as follow:—First shopman, £3 per week; second Bhopman, £2 10s.; first small goods man, £3; second small goods man, £2 10s.; 'hawking carters, £2 10s, v j general hands, £2 10s.; order carters,: first year, £2 ;.' order ■ carters, second year, £2 55.; order'carters, third year, £2 10s.; casual hands, 95., 6(1. per day; casual hands, Saturday only, lis.; boys under sixteen, 1 17s. 6d. per-week; sixteen and under seventeen, £1; seventeen and under eighteen, ' £1 2s. 6d.; eighteen and under nineteen, £1 65,;-nineteen and tinder twenty, £1 7s". 6(1.; twenty ; and under twenty-one, £1 10s.; over £112s ; 6d. i A man who considers himself incapable may obtain;a permit to work at'lower rates. The proportion of boys in .the service of any employer; shall not oxeced one'boy to every three inen. All married employees,(except in the case of pork butchers) shall be aflowed meat to an amount not exceeding ss. ,per week.; When an employer is regularly on-. gaged in a shop, he is to bo classed as first shopman, and, if a small goods maa is not solely employed'at small goods, he shall rank as a general hand. ' The holidays, which are to observed- without stoppage of pay, are; New Year's Day/ .Good Friday,- Easter Monday, Ifing'B Birthday, Labour Day, Prince of Wales's Birthday, Christmas Day, Boxing Day, Anniversary Day, and butchers' picnic day. Clauses provide for preference to unionists, and for the keeping of an employment book".