ARBITRATION COURT

Evening Star, Issue 19793, 17 February 1928, Page 7

ARBITRATION COURT

GENERAL LABORERS' AWARD The Arbitration Court has given its decision in the dispute between the General Laborers, Builders’ Laborers, Quarrymen, and Coalyard Employees’ Union and the Dunedin (nineteen miles radius) local bodies, comprising the Dunedin City Corporation, Dunedin Drainage Board, Green Island Borough Council, Mosgiel Borough Council, Port Chalmers Borough Council, St. Kilda Borough Council, and the West Harbor Borough Council. The only matters referred to the court related to wages and weekly hands. These the court has settled as follows: RATES OF WAGES. Tho following shall be the minimum wages to be paid to the several classes of workers hereinafter specified, that is to say:—

(a) Laborers employed in tunnels, as defined in clause 1 hereof, or in shafts or trenches of a depth of 6ft or over, or in timbering trenches, 2s Id per hour.

(b) Laborers employed in concrete work, pick and shovel work, sewer work, kerbing and channelling work, laying and cleaning drains, and all other work of the same kind, Is lid per hour. (c) Laborers employed in jointing gas or water mams shall receive not less than 2s per hour. (d) Laborers employed in- hammer and drill work or in using explosives, 2s per hour. (e) Laborers employed as tar workers (sprayer and broom), 2s per hour. WEEKLY ELANDS. . (a) The provisions of this award, except clauses 1, 12, and 13 hereof, shall nob -apply to any weekly hand employed by any local body who is paid not less than £4 10s per week of fortyseven hours: Provided that weekly hands shall receive the following overtime rates—viz., for all time worked in excess of eight-and a-half hours in any one day or in excess of forty-seven hours in any one week, time and a-half for the first three hours, and thereafter double time until the ordinary time for commencing work next morning if worked continuously. For work done on Sunday, Christmas Day, and Good Friday, 3s 4d per hour. For work done on New Year’s Day, Easter Monday, Anniversary Day, Labor Day, Boxing Day, and the birthday of the reigning Sovereign, 2s 4d per hour. The overtime rates prescribed for work done on the holidays hereinbefore mentioned shall be paid in addition to the weekly wage above prescribed. (b) A “ weekly hand ” is, a worker who has been appointed as such on the recommendation of; the officer in charge of the department in which the said worker is engaged. (c) One week’s notice of termination of employment shall be given by either side. The ’award will comb into force on March 5.