HAIRDRESSERS' CONDITIONS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1821, 6 August 1913, Page 9

HAIRDRESSERS' CONDITIONS.

MEN AND EMPLOYERS AGREE. A delegation from the. newly-formed Hairdressers' Union met the employers last evening in the Trades Hall, when an agreement was come to as to wages and working conditions, which will bo sent along to the Conciliation Council with a view of getting tho samo oonverted into an award of tho Court. The agreements arrived at are briefly as follow Minimum wage:' A journeyman o-r jouirneywoman to receive a minimum wage of .£2 153. per week, and any worker receiving more than the prescribed wages at the time of the award shall not have his or her wages reduced. Apprentices sliall be indentured far five years, and shall bo paid at the rate of 10s. per -week for the first year, 15s. per weok for tho second year, £\ per week for tho third year, XI ss. per week for tho fourth year, and .£1 15s. for the fifth year. One apprentice is to be allowed for every threo journeymen or journeywomen, or fraction thereof, permanently employed, permanent employment to mean six months' continuous employment. Where an employer is working at the chair himself, ho is to count as one journeyman. The hours shall be 52 per week, excluding meal hours, and tho hours to bo worked in eitch establishment are to be fixed by the employer, according to the circumstances of his business. Work is to end not later than 8 p.m. on threo days in the week, and not later than G p.m. on one day of tho week, not later than 1 p.m. on the afternoon of tho weekly half-hcili-<!av, not later than !>.15 p.m. on tho evening of Saturday, except on Christmas and New Year's Eve,' when 10 p.m. shall be obsorved as the time of closing. The following days shall be observed as full-day holidays:—New Year's Day, Good Friday, Sovereign's Birthday, Labour Day, Christmas Day, Anniversary Day, Easter Monday, and the second Wednesday in February, which is to be the date of the hairdressers' annual picnic. Boxing Day is to be observed as a partial holiday, from . 10 o'clock a.m. No reduction shall be made in wages for any full or half-day holiday, and in case of any of the holidays mentioned above falling on Sunday, they are to be observed on the Monday following.