GROCERS' ASSISTANTS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 90, 9 January 1918, Page 3

GROCERS' ASSISTANTS

CLAIMS FOR NEW AWARD,

Claims have been filed by the Grocers' Union "for a new award to apply to the whole of the Wellington Industrial District. The principal items in the demands' Are' as follow (terms of tlie existing award are given in parentheses) :— Hours-: 48 per week, 8 to 5.30 p.m. on four days, 8 to 6 p.m. Friday, and 8 to lon Saturday. (52 as in Shops and Offices Act.)

Wages: 15-16 years of age, 15s. per week; 16-17, 205.; 17-18, £1 10s.; 18-19, £2; 19-20, £2 10s.; 20-21, £3; over 21, £8 los. (Commencing at 10s. and rising to £2 17s. 6d. for assistants over 22 years of age.)* • Terras of engagement: Weekly employment. No youth under 18 to be employed driving. (Under 16.) Proportion of youths to'men, one to three. Holidays: As in present award, with the addition of Easter Saturday. No work to be done on holidays except •stable work, which shall be paid for at double time ratos on Sundays and other holidays. One holiday of twelve working days on full pay to be granted each • worker on completion of a year's service. Weekly half-holiday: No worker shall bo employed after 1 o'clock p.m. on | Saturday," the dnv of the half-holiday, irrespective of the provisions of Sect;on 19 and its sub-clauses of the Shons and Offices Act. Canvassers required to collecting orders after 1 p.m. l-on any of the-first five days of any week, shall he allowed not less than Is. 6d. for dinner: such allowance '■hall be given in addition to his weekly wages. . ~ i The interpretation clause is altered to read "every person shall be (Wed to bo a grocer's assistant who is entered in anv canacity in poi'ncctmn with the sale of goods, clisplf"' of goods, making;up of orders, stocks, packing, dispatching, storemeii, canvassers, and drivers" There are other clauses regarding references, preference, and under-rato workers. , The dispute will be dealt with by the Conciliation Council, in Wellington, on January 23. Assessors nominated by the union are: Messrs. J. F. Briarley, H. J. Mortensen, and R. M'Keon.