LOCAL BODY DRIVERS
CCUSHION AWARD CLAIMS fPtu United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, October 2. The commissioner (Mr M. J. Reardon) _ was engaged to-day in the Conciliation Council in hearing the New Zealand local body drivers’ industrial dispute in an application for a new Do min inn award. The respondents include borough councils, county councils, town, road, river, drainage, harbour, ami electric power boards. An agreement was reached on wages and hours. ’The council adjourned till tomorrow to enable the employees’ representatives to consider the following proposals hy the local bodies:—A 44hour week (the workers wanted 40) of nine hours a day (the workers wanted eight), to lie worked between 7 a.m. and (i p.m.; wages to be computed on an hourly basis; overtime at the rate of time ami a-linlf, to be computed on a iortnightly spread; emergency work —that is, work made necessary by the blocking of communications through storm, slips, etc.—time and a-half beyond TO hours; emergency work on holidays, double time beyond TO hours.
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Evening Star, Issue 22460, 3 October 1936, Page 21
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166LOCAL BODY DRIVERS Evening Star, Issue 22460, 3 October 1936, Page 21
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