ENGINEDRIVERS' AWARD

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 37, 6 November 1937, Page 3

ENGINEDRIVERS' AWARD

—Preas AisociationA

40-Hour Five-Day Week

(By TelesrapB

WELLINGTON, Last Night. X new award governing enginedrivers and their asgistants in Wellington, Taranaki, Nelson and Marlborough has been made by the Court of Arbitration. The award is based on the' decisions of tho Conciliation Council earlier this year, which reached a completo agreement. The principal new provisions are for higker wages, annual holidays where there' were no annual holidays before, weekly rate of pay, inclusion of men in charge of electrical machinery and internal combustion engines, as well as those in charge of steam engines, who were previously included. The award provides for a 40-houi. five-day week between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. except in factories where conditions are otherwise. Wages are as follows: Men required to have a firstclass certificate (traction or locomotive) certificated drivers of locomotivej of steam or other power, or road rollers, certificated winding engine drivers, £5 5s; men in charge of electrically-driven plants over 50 h.p. and internal combustion engines over 20 h.p. and men required to hold second-elass stationary engine certificate, £5; firemen, stokers, greasers, watchmen and workers in charge of engines or boilers where no certificate is required, £4 15s; drivers . of steam-driven cranes or winches, or both, where a first-class certificate is required, £5 5s; where a second-class certificate is required, £5; where no certificate is required, £4 15s; shift workers with a first-class certificate, £5 12s 6d; shift workers with a second-class certificate, £5 7s 6d; uncertificated shift workers, £5 2s 6d. County Council employees: Traction engine and roller drivers, £1 ls a day; winch drivers, 18s 6d a day; men in charge of electrically-driven plants • over 50 h.p. • or internal combustion engines over 20 h.p.,,£l a day. The overtime rate is time and a-half for the first four houTs and double time there- • after. The holidays clause decrees that in ithe case of factories, works or industries, including sawmills, engine- drivers and assistants shall be given the same holidays as are generally obsenved in the works, or elso must bo paid double time. Workers regularly employed on shift work must be allowed two working weeks' holiday a year on full pay. All others must be allowed one week's holiday on full pay after 12 months' service with one employer.