PAINTING TRADE

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2757, 28 April 1916, Page 3

PAINTING TRADE

PROPOSALS FOR NEW AWARD,

As the result of conferences between representatives of the employers and the AN ellington Painters and Decorators' Union, an agreement has been arrived at for a now award to govern the industry. The proposals agreed upon have been drafted as claims, and Sled with the Clerk of Awards, in order that they may como befbre the Conciliation Council and tho Arbitration Court, and bn made into an award of tho Court. In its general terms the new agreement differs but little-from the award at present in ' force. The most important alternative is in regard to wages, which for journeymen are increased from Is. 4£d. to Is. 6d. an hour, and for apprentices by 2s. 6d. per week all round. Country work, which previously included all jobs outside a ten-mile radius, is. now defined as work which necessi-

ts-tcs the journeyman or apprentice lodging elsewhere than his usual place of residence. Suburban work includes work performed nt a distance of over one mile and a half from the employer's place of business, instead of two miles ns previously. The scope of the award is extended from thirty to fifty miles from the G.P.0., Wellington. The hours clause (44 per week), overtime, preference, and other clauses remain the same, /flic award is to come into operation on Juno 1. The case will be heard by the Conciliation Council.on May 8. ' Assessors nominated by die union are: Messrs W. Cooper, F. Carnwell, and F. Wallis.