COURT OF ARBITRATION.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2008, 16 March 1914, Page 9

COURT OF ARBITRATION.

NEW AWARD FOR CARPENTERS . . ■ ' AND JOINERS. The award of tho Court of Arbitra tion in the Wellington Carficiitcrs' an< Joiners' Award lias been' filed. . I ocmes. into force to-day,■ and operate? within a ra-]iua of 50 miles of the T Aro Post Office, uiitil December 16 1916. Tho principal feature of th< award is that it provides for a week < ■U hours, witli payment.at the niinimun rato of Is. Gd. pev.lionr.' In a memo randum, liis Honour Mr. Justice String or explaine tlmfc tho award is. based fo tho mojt part r.jioir tlip provisions o tlio award recently made in Dunedii (particulars of which liave already beei published). Clnuso 13 has been arjreei on- by'the partir , ?. and is inserted a thoir request. This clnuso is headed "General.Provisinnc." It reads as fol lows: —"All woodwork done in eny fac tory or workshop occupied by, or ci lielialf of, any. pirty to tliis award slml bo doemed to be work coniinc; witlii; tbo scope of Ibis awa-d, provided thai (a) Tho iin:on shall accept clearance cards froni members of ■ any. furniture trade union, and, further, the said union shall grant clearance . cards to any of its members wishing to transfer to any furniture trade union [>'1 - .ph not engaged at' work coming within thu scope of this award. (b) Tho simo ohss of business at present carried on by the parties to • this a.vard shall be continued to be s.O carried en. The Gear Meat Company, Ltd. (Wellington and Petone), the Wellington Meat Export Company, Ltd. (Wellington and Ngahauranua), the Wellington Harbour Board, and the. Wellington Hospital and Charitable-Aid Board art exempted i'rjm the operation of the award on condition that they pay not less than tho wages fixed by the award for any work coining within the scope of the award, and pay the overtime rates prescribed for any work done by any worker in ex?eos of 41 hours-iti any one week.