CARPENTERS AND JOINERS

Evening Star, Issue 23371, 14 September 1939, Page 10

CARPENTERS AND JOINERS

AGREEMENT ON WAR WORK WAGES AND CONDITIONS ANNOUNCED [Per United Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, September 14. “The vexed questions relating to hours, wages, and overtime in connection with work of a military nature have now been completed, and the following conditions have been issued under the authority of Messrs Webb and Semple. They will probably be gazetted to-day,” said Mr Sutcliffe, of the Amalgamated Society of the Carpenters and Joiners’ Union. “The union, by obtaining these ditions, has probably, with the exception of double time, got intact the conditions obtaining in the carpenters and joiners’ award. The agreement provides in connection with emergency defence works—the establishment of military camps, aerodromes, road works, or the erection of stores—that the provisions of the awards or agreements in respect of extended hours of work are to be suspended, subject to the following conditions :

(1) If three shifts are being worked per day, the workers shall receive, in addition to their ordinary wages, an allowance of 3s per shift, and 2s per shift -where two shifts are being worked. The shifts shall be rotated. (2) All proposed arrangements for shift work by the department and contractors must be telegraphed by the district engineers for the approval of the Minister of Public Works. (3) If more than eight hours are worked on any day, overtime rates must be paid. . „ (4) All time worked on Saturday shall be paid for at time and a-half. (5) Excepting as above, all extended hours of work shall be paid for at the rate, and subject to the conditions, for extended hours provided for in awards or agreements, but not less than time and a-half. . , (6) Any travelling _ time outside ordinary hours to be paid for at ordinary rates, and not overtime rates.