COMPLETE AGREEMENT

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 208, 18 September 1937, Page 6

COMPLETE AGREEMENT

Builders' and Contractors' Labourers HAWKE'S BAY PROVINCE Early in the present week complete settlement was reached between the Hawke's Bay General Labourers' Union and the employers of this province a.s to wages and conditions. The new TateS of pay, which came into operation on September 16, are as follows: — Certified men using explosives, 2/6; workers engaged in handling bitumen and tar, 2/5; quarrj%nen, 2/4, tunnelmen or timber-men, 2/7; workers engaged in the actual construction of scaffolds, 2/6; all other labourers, 2/4. The wages for youths show an in» crease of approximately 20 per cent. Men engaged on country work will receive an allowance of 5/- per day for six days per week. The award covers employers in business as builders and contractors within the provineial district of Hawke's Bay and it will remain in operation until August 31, 1938. Several of the conditions in the new agreement are in advance of those made in previous awards, especially in respect to working in wet places and the definition of tunnel work. A tunnel is an underground excavation that is over 20 feet in length or requires timbering overhead. « Where a worker is working in water Or foui air six hours shall constitute a day's work, and a wet place shall mean a place where a worker has to stand in not less than two inches of water, providing where the worker is supplied with gum boots and the water is less than 12 inches in depth, the place , shall not be deemed to be a wet place.