ARBITRATION, COURT AWARD

Hokitika Guardian, 8 April 1930, Page 5

ARBITRATION, COURT AWARD

(By Telegraph—Press Association)

WELLINGTON, April 8. The award of the Arbitration Court

in the Typographical dispute has been issued. The classification of towns in the machine section has been brought into line with that appearing in the hand section, and in Related Trades Award, which automatically increased by os the earnings of machine operators in larger secondary towns by placing them on the sain? level as those in the four main centres. Changes are made in the method of computing ipiece-rate earnings. Rates are not altered but where type of a wider narrower face than standard is used, the cast up will be on the basis of work performed, instead of on an arbitrary basis. Rates for night work are unaltered. Regarding holidays the Court accepted the assurance of extra leave when asked for would not be unreasonably refused. Another matter was the option given employers to add a day to the annual holiday of. a worker instead of paying overtime rates for work done on holidays other than Xmas Day and Good Friday. A majority of the Court saw no objection to the option being continued, for it had the effect of giving one holiday for another. It was necessary for newspaper staffs to work on certain public holidays and there was nothing unreasonable in the workers being given day for clay, when the annual leave became clue, instead of being paid overtime rates for public holidays, which could not be given on the day on which it fell. In other respects the new award is based on the old award. Mr Monteith (workers’ representative) dissented on the matter of piece rates. In bis opinion, it amounted to more work for less money.