AWARD WAGE BASIS
--Press Association.)
Intimation by Aibitration Court GENERAL INCREASE
(By Telegraph-
AUCKLAND, Last Night. An important pronouncement concerning the wages of adult weekly inale workers was made by the Arbitration Court in a memorandum to the Birkenhead Sugar Workers' Award. "As to wages " the memorandum says, "a general inerease of 5/- a week, iu line. with the inerease which the Court proposes generally to award to adulfc male weekly workers, ha's Deen made on the existing rates." In addition, a special payment of 3/a week has been granted to shift workers, as the Court considers that workers who work a round of shifts, including afternoon and night shifts., should receive (some special consideration. The rates of wages for youths have been decided upon by the Court, but the form of the scale is as agreed upon by the parties to the dispute. An annual holiday has been granted, as the Court thinks this to be in aecordance with the general spirit of the industrial legislation.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 60, 3 December 1937, Page 5
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