ELECTRICAL WORKERS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1220, 31 August 1911, Page 3

ELECTRICAL WORKERS.

AGBBBMENT WITH EMPLOYEES. The agreement made on August 25 be; tween the Wellington Electrical Workers Union and the very large number of cmplovers interested, was yesterday hied with "Mr. E, Stocker, Clerk of Awards, In addition to electrical supplies anil electric lighting firms, a number of other employers who work their own electnclightiiig plants in their own premises, are named. > Following are extracts from the agreement :— Interpretation. Electricians' work shall mean and shall include the constructing, erecting, installing, and repairing of all classes rf electric lighting and • power appliances, and of any other appliance which requires a practical knowledge of electricity. Nothing in this agreement shall prevent the erection, construction,' or repairing of any mechanical portion of any of the above-mentioned appliances or machinery by a mechanical engineer, or a worker employed to attend to a running plant or switchboard. Hours and Wages. Competent journeymen shall bo paid | not less than )». tjd. jier hour. i'orty-fivo hours shall constitute a week's work. All timo worked in excess of the hours provided for shall bo paid for at (ho rate of time and a quarter for tho first two hours, and time and a half tlicrcufter. For time worked on New Year's Day, Easter Monday, Labour Day, and the birth of tho reigning sovereign, timo and a half shall Ire paid. l''or tho time worked on Christmas Day, Good Friday, and Sundays, doublo timo shall bo paid. General. Provisions are also made for underrate workmen, for apprentices' wages, and for tho usual preference to unionists. Several shops and hotels, two newspapers, and one picture theatre aro exempted from the provisions of the award.