RAILWAYMEN'S PAY

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 161, 2 April 1919, Page 9

RAILWAYMEN'S PAY

WAR INCREASES MADE PERMANENT

THE EIGHT HOURS DAY

The railway management, with the Minister, has almost completed the negotiations with the different branches nt the Service with regards" to new pay schedules and conditions of employment The second division men who are still in' the A.S.K.S., which means all the second division men except some ot tne engine men and firemen, have been dealt with finally. Thev have received considerable advances in pay and great improvements in conditions, 'the management is still conferring with Hit) first division men, and the loco, men will meet the management to-day. Proposals novo "been made to 'both of these bodies, and a settlement should 'be readied wttliout any difficulty. . The three bonuses granted.to the second division (hiring.the war are to be made, permanent, ami the last, bonus, which wns given to married men on,ly, will now be extended to single men also. First-grade, guards will receive.l 3*. bi • to Ws. Oil. a dav; second grade, lis. 0(1. to 13s.' Fifty per cent, of tlin guards aro'to bo first grade, and 25 per cent, of those will be specially selected by the Department for an extra payment, making their wages 15s. .a. day.- lor brat grade shunters the rates will he lis. and 14s. (id. . . Of the engine-driers 23 per cent, ot the first grade will bo selected for a wage of 17s, per day. There are important concessions .with regard to hours, including the adoption of the eight-hour day for the, whole seriee with the exception.of tablet porters, whoso work is intermittent. All work between 10 p.m. and C a.m. will be paid for at. the overtime rate of time and a quarter. A forty-four-hour -week is to be ■ observed in the railway .workshops, without reduclion of pay.. ]n granting this reduction of four hours weekly, the. Department a»l-9 for the loyal co-operation of the stall' in maintaining the original Output. " ' mi In computing overtime each day will stand by itself. Double time will bo paid for work on Cluistmas Day, Good Friday, Ihe Sovereign's Birthday, and Labour.Day, ami time and a half on Sundays.

AIEN DISCUSS THE NEW' SCHEDULE,

By Telegraph-Press Association Auckland, April 1. The Newmarket branch of the A.S.B.S. discussed the. new schedule, and also expressed confidence in the general secretary of the society. "It is stilted that several of the Minister's proposals were rejected by tho meil.