NEW AWARD
WOOL AND GRAIN WORKERS
FORTY-HOUR WEEK GRANTED
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, This Day.
A new award issued by the Arbitration Court relating to the Northern Taranaki, -Wellington, Marlborough, Nelson, Otago, and Southland wool, grain, hide, arid manure store employees provides for a 40-hour week,' consisting of eight hours a cray from Monday to Friday, but a worker may be employed for. four hours on Saturday morning at ordinary rates of pay. Casual workers are to be paid not less than 2s 6d' an hour and permanent hands not less than. £4 12s 6d a week, while workers mixing manures or bagging'manures by hand are to receive 3d an hour additional. Head storemen are. to receive' £1 a week extra, and workers classing hides and skins and setting grass seed and grain cleaning machines and workers sampling seed and grain are to receive 2d an hour additional. Provision is made for overtime and recognised holidays. The award is retrospective trom January 1. . . , Mr Anderson, employers' representative, dissents- on the hours of work and rates of pay, expressing the opinion that there should he a 44-hour week spread over five and a half days. v
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 23, 28 January 1938, Page 11
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195NEW AWARD Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 23, 28 January 1938, Page 11
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