LOCAL BODY LABOURERS

Evening Star, Issue 22465, 9 October 1936, Page 6

LOCAL BODY LABOURERS

AGREEMENT AT AUCKLAND [Per United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, October 8. The agreement drawn up by the Local Bodies’ Labourers’ Union and the Auckland City Council, covering the employees of the latter body, was ratified at a meeting of the union at the Trades Hall, which was attended by 520 members. A 40-hour week and an eight-hour day will now be worked, Saturday work being permitted on the essential services (street cleaning, etc.), and men are to work the hours necessary without payment of overtime provided it does not mean working more than a 40-hour week or eight hours in one day. The rates of pay will be: General labourers 2s 3d per hour, quarry and scoria pit men, hammer and drill workers 2s 4d, leading hands concrete and stone work 2s sd, gaugers and machine drillers 2s (id. Destructor employees—leading bands 2s 7]d, firemen and chargors 2s 6d, receivers and refuse handlers 2s 4]d. The weekly wages for convenience attendants will be £4 for males and £3 for females. A female bath attendant is to bo paid £3, and tip men and weighbridge attendants £4. Overtime is to be paid at the rate of time and a-half for the first three hours, and double time thereafter. Where a worker attends a job but does not work on that day lie is to receive two hours’ pay, and any employee called out to do special work is to receive a minimum of 2s 6d. A break of 10 minutes is to be allowed for morning tea.