DOMINION AWARD
PA INTERS A Xl> DECORATORS
WELLINGTON, Dec. 19. 'Tin* Dominion Painters’ Award has been filed by the Arbitration Court. In a memorandum Mr Justice l< razor states that the Court has settled the provisions relating to wages. ship work and exemptions, reserving power in the two latter eases to amend the award on application being made for that purpose.
Mr Monteith dissents is’om Hie opinion of the majority of the Court on the matter of wages. He considers that the same additional payment to outside workers should he awarded as in the case of carpenters. In other respects the award follows the recommendations of the Conciliation Council. which the parties agreed to accept. .
'l'lie award provides for a forty-lotir-hour week. The minimum rate of wages for journeymen painters, paperhangers, glaziers, grainers, signwriters. decorators and pictorial sign painters is 2s 3d an hour. The award is to operate throughout t]\p Northern I a rani,ki. Wellington. Nelson. -Canterbury. Op, i/o and Southland, Industrial Dist.ricts, but not within the Gisborne Judicial District.
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 December 1928, Page 3
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