CARPENTERS' WAGE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 206, 16 September 1937, Page 8

CARPENTERS' WAGE

-Press Association.)

■ 1 Five-Day 40-Hour Week; 2/9 an Honr COMPLETE AGREEMENT

(By Telegraph-

■WELLINGTON, Last Night. The final day of tlie hearing of the Dominion carpenters' and joiners' dispute was completed to-day before Mr M. J. Reardon, Coneiliation Comniissioner, and representatives of 'both sides. A complete agreement was reached for a, five-day 40-hour week, the hours to be worked each day between 7.30 a.m, and 5 p.xn. Overtime, piecework rates and 6tatutory holidays are the same as in the 1936 award. The clause concerning annual leave was abandoned. The employers' offer of 2/9 an hour based on the recent pronouncement of the arbitration Court was agreed to by ihe .workers with the additio'h of |d an honr as an allowance for tools in ae-, cordance with ihe practice whsch prevailed. nnder ihe earlier awards. The additional payment applies to joiners as well as carpenters. A special allowance of 8d an honr for men working in f ertiliser and chesmical works was aecepted by the workers' representatives. The provisions regarding wages are to be retrospective to the date of the Uourt's pronouncement, September 15. All the other provisions agreed on in the award are to beeome effective from ihe time of the making of the award by the Court. The term of the award is fixed for oue year t!ommencmg September 15, 1937„