GROCERS’ AWARD

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8355, 15 February 1913, Page 8

GROCERS’ AWARD

Press Association, DUNEDIN, February 11. The Arbitration Court has made an award in the grocers' dispute in terms'of’ the agreement arrived at between the parties. The minimum rate of wages is to be paid as follows:—From fifteen to sixteen years 10s per week, from sixteen to seventeen 15s, from seventeen to eighteen M, from eighteen to nineteen AT ss, from nineteen to twenty £1 15s, from twenty to twenty-one £2, from twenty-one to twenty-two £2 6s, from twenty-two upwards £2 ICe. The minimum to be paid to drivers of twenty-two years and upwards shall be £2 10s per week. Drivers under twentvtwo shall be paid acooiding to the scale prescribed for assistants under the age of twenty-two years. No youth under sixteen shall be employed m driving. An assistant may act as driver or driver as assistant. • . . The award shall come into force as from February Ist and continue until July Ist, 1915. The President of the Court has attached the following memorandum The provisions of clause 10 are not to come into force until there has been an amendment of the law with regard to working overtime, as both employers and workers an near to be agreed that the provisions of the Shops and Offices Act, 1910, on the subject are unnecessarily strict and vexatious. It is reasonable to snpoose that the law will be altered at an early date and clause 10 has been inserted at the request of the parties, so that employers may get the benefit of the aiUration as soon as possible. Clause 10 reads: The following provisions shall come into force if and whenever the law shall be amended, so tuai. it shall be lawful.to insert in any award provision (a): Any employer may require assistants or any of them to work without additional pay for two hour, each night for three evenings a week in eacn ot three weeks immediately precedim: Christmas Day and for tluee hours on Thursday before Good Friday.