PAINT WORKERS

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 87, 13 April 1938, Page 10

PAINT WORKERS

AWARD FILED

An award was filed In the Court of Arbitration on Monday dealing with wages and conditions of employment of paint and varnish workers in the Wellington, Otago, and Southland industrial districts. The award is operative as far as wages are concerned as from December 3, 1937, arid in regard to the other clauses as from April 11, 1938. It is to terminate on April 11. 1939.

A 40-hour week tp be worked on five days between the hours of 7.30 a.m. and 5 p.m. is prescribed, the meal-times allowed to be at least three-quarters of an hour. Workers on night shift are to be paid 2s per shift extra if working on three or more consecutive night. Minimum rates of wages are prescribed as follows:— Leading hands, £5 10s; shaders, £5; varnish cookers and gum-runners, £5; mixing and grinding, £4 15s; other adult males, £4 10s. Rates for junior males are fixed according to a scale ranging from 15s to £3 10s. Casual workers, defined as persons whose engagement is for less than five consecutive days, are to be paid not less than 2s Gd per hour, with a minimum of four hours.

Overtime is to be paid for at time and a hal£ i'br the first four hours and double time thereafter. The minimum rate is fixed at Is Od per hour. The proportion of youths to seniors in the dry-mixing, grinding, and varnish departments shall not exceed one to three, and the average over all departments shall not exceed one to one. Six statutory holidays arc allowed, as well as the period from the evening of December 23 until the morning of January 4.

Other clauses govern weekly employment, dangerous work, payment of wages, holiday payment, general conditions, and under-ratc workers, j