DEFENCE WORKS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20043, 15 September 1939, Page 11

DEFENCE WORKS

WAGES OF CARPENTERS SHIFT ALLOWANCES CONDITIONS ANNOUNCED EXTENSION OF HOURS (T«r Press Association,). CHRISTCHURCH, this day. 'The vexed question relating to hours, wages and overtime in connection with work of a military nature has now been completed and t!ie following conditions have been issued under the authority of the Minister of Labour, the Hon. P. C. Webb, and the Minister of Public Works, the Hon. R. Semple. They will probably be gazetted to-day,” said Mr. Sutcliffe, of the Amalgamated Society of the Carpenters’ Union.

“The union, by obtaining these conditions, has probably, with the exception of double time, got intact the conditions obtaining in the carpenters and joiners’ award." The agreement provides that in connection with emergency defence works —the establishment of military camps, aerodromes, road works _ or the erection of stores —the .provisions of 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 a day, the workers shall receive, in addition to their ordinary wages, an allowance of 3s a shift and 2s a shift where two shifts arc being worked. The shifts shall be rotated.

“(2) All Hie proposed arrangements for shift work by the department. and the contractors must be telegraphed by the district engineer 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 this rate and, subject to 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 is to be paid for at ordinary rates and not at overtime rates.”