ORCHARDISTS' CLAIMS

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 60, 4 December 1920, Page 14

ORCHARDISTS' CLAIMS

HASTINGS AWARDS FILED'. . Awards havo been filed in the Arbitration Court in two disputes. The Hastings Fruit Cool-store and Orchard employees (coolstore section) and the Hastings fruit, cOol-store, orchard, nu.rsery, and garden employees (nurserymen's section). ' , Tho award in the first oaso will continue in oporation until September ufl, 1921. It provides tih'at, hours of work shall bo from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. on five days of the week (on© liour to ho .allowed each day for and on kat> ui-days from 8 a.m. until 12 noon. iNo overtime shall be worked after 5 p.m. on Saturdays, and when overtime is worked on other days one hour shall be allowed for tea. Wages are fixed as follow Cool storemen, certificated paokors, graders, and casemakers, Is. lOd. per hour; general workers, Is. Bd. per hour ; caso and box-makers, bushel cases, ss. 9d. per 100, 2-piece lids, 6s. 3d. per 100, 4-pi«:c lids, 6s. 9d. per 100, 8-piece lids: toalfcases, ss. per 100; packings,- 3d. per bushel case and own lids to be nailed. Overtime is to be paid for at of time and a.quarter for .the first three hours, and time and a '.half for tho next three hours, thereafter at tho rate ot double time. Wages are to bo paid' weekly, and where smoking is not allowed in the store, a "smoko"' of fifteen minutes shall bo allowed when working four or more hours in one stretch. Tho usual preference clauses are included. In the second award, hours of work aro fixed at 48, exclusivo of tie necessary time for attendance .to forcing stores or gTeenhouses on Sundays or holidays, made up as follows:—85 hours per day on five days of t-lio week, to bo worked between 7.3 ft a.m. and *5 p-m. on eaoU of such days, and -J-i houns on Saturday, to be worked between. 7.30 a.m. -and noon. Thoso workers engaged in jobbing gardening shall ho allowed to work eight hours in any day of the week if they elect so to do. Wages aro fixed as follow.—Competent nurserymen or landscape gardeners, if not cngogpd by the week, 2s. per hour, and if engaged by the week, a weekly wage of not ioss than lfts. Any worker not competent to perform general nursery and landscape gardening work shall bo termed ft "nurBerv and landscape gardener's labourer," and shall 'be paid not less than Is. 7d. per hour for l casual work. If engaged by the week, tlhe minimum wage is to bo _t3 15s. Casuol employment is defined as employment lasting less than one wee,k and terminated by the employer. The minimum/ rates shall be increased by a bonus of 3d. an hour to daily worxers and os. a week to weekly workers. Rates for. youth -labour are as follow:—Under 17 yea is of-age, Jit 103. per week; 17. to 18, ,C 2; 18 to 19, -E2 10s. ; 19 to 20, J!3; over 20 years of age, the minimum rate for employees'. Several special provisions are contained in this award. There is a clause covering country work, suburban work, and it is laid down that a St. John ambulance kit shall be kept in a convenient place, accessible towhera the men aTe employed; also that there must bo hot water appliances lhanay Ratos .to apprentices are fixed as follow:—First year, XI per week; second year, ill 10s.; third year, £2 55.; and fourth year, £2 15s. The usual preferonce clauses are included in the award.