ARBITRATION COURT.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1675, 15 February 1913, Page 6

ARBITRATION COURT.

, GEOCEES' AWARD. . '. s . ' ~-i ; ~ (By . Telegraph.—Press Association.) '■' Duncdin, February, U. Tlie Arbitration Court has. made an award in the'grocers' dispute in terms of tho agreement arrived at between tho parties A minimum rate of wages-is to bo paid as follows rr-From 15 to 1G years, 10s. per week; from 16 to 17, 155.; from 17' to' \S, ,£l;'from 18 to 19, £1 55.; from 19 to 20, £1 155.; from 20 to 21, £2; from 21 to' 22, £2' 55.; from 22 upwards, £2 103., The minimum to be paid to drivers 22 ■ years. and .upwards shall be £2 10s." per week. Drivers under 22 shall be paid according to the scalo prescribed for assistants under the ago of 22 years. No youth under 16 years shall bo employed in driving. An'assistant may act ns driver or driver as assistant.The award shall, come into force as from February 1, arid continue until July 'I,' 1915." Tho president of the Court has attached the following memorandum: Tho. provisions of Clause 10 arc not to come into force until there has been an amondment of -the law with regard to working overtime. '' As both employers and workers appear to bo .agreed that • the provisions of the Shops: and \ Offiees'-Act, 1910, on the subject are unnecessarily strict and 'vexatious, it is reasonable.to suppose that the law will be altered at an early date, and Clause 10 has been inserted at the request of the parties so that employers may get the benefit'of. the alteration as' •soon as possible. . , ■ Clause 10 reads: The following provi-, aion's. shall come into force if and whenever the'law shall be amended 60 that it shall be lawful-to insert in any award, provision that (a) any. employer may require assistants or any of them to work without additional pay for two hours each' night for three evenings a week in each of three weeks immediately preceding Christmas Day, and for'thrce hours on. Thursday before Good Friday.