GENERAL LABOURERS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1858, 18 September 1913, Page 11

GENERAL LABOURERS.

PROVISIONS OF NEW AWARD.

His Honour Mr. Justice Sim yesterday presented his award in the . industrial dispute between the Wellington General Labourers' Union and a number of employers'. Tho principal question in the dispute related to wages, and they were mado the same as those agreed 0111 recently by the parties in Auckland. The award l applies only to workers' employed by local bodies, contractors, a.nd quarry owners, ' and to workers employed bv othcir employers when doing any of tne work specified in the award. t The clauses in tho award relating to hours of work state that the week's work shall not exceed 47 hours, or 8} on five days.and 5} 011 Saturdays. 111 .tunnel work the hours shall not exceed eight hours per shift, and six hours shall constitute a day's work in. wet places or foul air, a "wet pl'aco" meaning • .where workers (have to stand l in water oyer tlio boot-tops or whero water is dripping on them. As to wages, the minimum ' Tates of wages are to bo paid' as follow:—Tunnelwork, tunnel men and timber men, 13. 3d. per ,hour: quarry work, Is. 2d. per hour; general labourers working underground or employed! at concrete work, pick and jflioveLwork, sower, work, kerbing and channelling work, laying and cleaning drains, and asphalt and-tar work, Is. 2d. per hour. All time worked beyond this is overtime at tho v rato of time ,and a' quarter for the first two hours, and time and n half thereafter. Tho recognised holidays shall bo: New Year's Day, .Good Friday, Easter Monday, Labour Day, the birthday of the Sovereign, Christmas Day, and Boxing Day, and work done on Good Friday, Christmas Day, or Sunday shall bo paid for at the rate of double time, time and a ha.lf being paid oil any of the other holidays. Youths may be employedl at not less than the following rates of wages:—Up to 17 years of age, 18s. per week; up to 18, 225.; up to 19, 265.; up to 20, 305.; up to 21, 6s. por day, or 365. per week. The proportions of youths shall'not bo more than one to every five men fully employed. Youths under 21 years of age shall not bo permitted to be shot-firers. After dealing with under-rate workers and preference it is stated _that tlio operation of the award is limited 1 to the area of 20 miles from the Chief Post Office at Wellington. Tho award comes into force on September 29, and continues until September 15, 1916.