WAGES AND WORK

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 295, 7 September 1920, Page 3

WAGES AND WORK

NEW AWAKD6 PILED. A number of awards of the Arbitration Court were filed on Saturday morning, aB follow:— Wellington biograph operate™: Hours of work for operators in continuous picture shows, not more than seven per day, and not more than 42 per week; in night shows hours to be such aB Hied between the operator and the proprietors. Wages: Where two operators are employed, chief operator, £5 per -week; second operator,,£4 10s. per week; second opprator who has been in actual employment as an opera' tor for not less than. 12 monthß, £3 10s. per week; where one' operator'only iB employed, £4 10s. per week. Provision is also made for casual -workers, and for an annual holiday of i 4 days on halfpay.. The term of the award is for two years. It is set out in a memorandum that Mr. M'Cullough (the employees' asfes- * sor) dissented from the award, contending that the rate of wages provided should be increased hy at. least 10s. per week. Wellington' builders and general labour- • erß: Labourers engaged on actual construction of scaffolds, Is. Bd. rer hour; labourers assisting in the erection of scaffolds, Is. 7d. per. hour. For general labourers, the following rates are to .paid:— Tunnel men and timber men, Is. 9d.; quarry men. Is. 7d.; labourers working underground or employed in concrete, pick and Bhovel work, Itcrbing and channeling, laving and clearing drains, and asphalt and tar -work, Is. 7d. In addition to the rates specified above, all workers are to receive a bonus of 3d. per hour. The

term of the award is two years. Federated cooks and steward*: Hates of pay per month :-Ohief steward, £16; chief cook, £16; chief steward, with aßßistant or assistants, £16; cook Bteward, without assistant, £18 (chief stewards or chief cooks employed on vcsselß to carry 20 or more passengers, £1 per month extra); assistant cooks or stewards, under 17 jcars, £8- 17-19 years, £9 10b.; .19-21, £10 10s.; over 21, £12; stewardesses, £9.. Overtime, 2s. per hour. Employees' with 12 months continuous service are entitled to fourteen ■ days' holiday, per annum on full pay. Wellington performing musicians: hrerr performer employed in Wellington at eeneral theatrical performances, including • operatic, touring piclureß, dramatic, comedy, vaudeville, etc., £3 15s. per week for six performances, and Us. .for each matinee. Every performer at permanent vaudcrilie or variety shows, £S «.. P«r «cek for seven performances, and Us. ,lor each matinee after the first., Every, performer at permanent picture entertainments, ti 5s per week for six performances, ss. for the firßt matinee, and 11b. for subsequent matinees in-each week. Special rates are set out for performers en mechanical instruments with travelling companies, dances, assemblies, balls, and casual informers. In addition to tho rates set out the Court directs that a bonus of 6b. per week be paid to adult workers on weekly engagement, 3s. per week to female workers on weekly engagement, and, to hourly vnorkerß a. bonus of lsdXper Hour. $ Wellington retail grocers' a ff" tn "i ß = 1 - 5 : 1 1 , 6 wars of age, lis. per week; 16-17, £1; 17-18, £1 7s 6d.riß-19, £2; 19-20, £2 10..; 20-21, £3; £-22 £J 10b.; over 22, £4 2s. 6d. Imvcrs,. ti 2b 6d The rates set out are subject to a bonus of ss. a week. Hours of work: B am. to 5.30 p.m. on four days a week: from 8 a.m. to 8.30 p.m. en cue (lay; and from 8 a.m. to l p.m. on the Saturday half-holiday. Any time worked m excess of these hours shall be tamed to be overtime, and paid for at the rate of time and a half for thollrst three hours, and thereafter double time, the tallowing aro> recognised as holidays:-Aiiriver-nary Dav. New Year's Day, Good Friday, Easter Saturday,' Easter Monday, Labour Bay King's Birthday, end Hoxing Ilay. Work done on these holidays and on Hundays ia to be paid for at double t:me. 'An annual holiday of one week on full pav is provided for. • The Wellington painters and decorators, Wellington (30-miles' radius), gn rtrs" assistants and drivers, the Wellington. Northern Canterbury, Otago, and Scuthland and Marlborough Bhearors' and SU-d hands' awards have beea amended in respect of wages and bonuses, to bring them into lino with other al'er.itions recently mado by the Court in -accordance with its recent pronouncement in re'ipect of increased •wages aB a set-off to the rise in the cost of living.