STOREMEN’S AWARD

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10610, 8 June 1920, Page 5

STOREMEN’S AWARD

FOB WANGANUI DISTRICT. Tho award of the Arbitration Court in connection with the Storemen’s Union dispute, Wanganui, filed yesterday, provides for a 44-hour week, with a daily meal hour from 12 noon to 1 p.m. Tho wages for casual workers (employees engaged by the hour) is fixed at Is lid per hour, and that for permanent hands at ,2-1 2s Gd per week; permanent (or weekly) employees being engaged subject to a week’s notieo on either side. All time worked between G p.m. and 10 p.m. is to bo paid for at the rate of 2» 7d per hour; and all time worked between 10 p.m. and 8 a.m. at the rate of 3s lOd per hour. The following days are to bo observed as full holidays—Christmas Day, Boxing Day, Now Year’s Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Labour Day, and the 'King’s Birthday' all work done on Sundays, Good Friday, and Christmas Day, or Labour Day to be paid for at double rates* find that done on the other specified holidays at the rate of time and a-lialf. Employers are to provide all workers employed on hides or skins with canvas aprons and loggings. The normal provision is made for under-rate workers. Tho award prescribes that no individual worker shall carry any bagged goods exceeding 200 pounds in weight, and that the employer shall provide dining and lavatory accommodation, and facilities for the changing of clothes; also first-aid and medical outfits in all stores. A disputes committee. consisting of two representatives from each side, with a chairman to ho mutually agreed upon, is provided for, and a preference clause is embodied. The award applies to workers employed in wool and grain stores within a radius of 10 miles of the chief post office, Wanganui; hut the Wanganui Harbour Board is hound by its provisions only so far as they relate to hours of work-, wages, and overtime. Tho term of tho award is from June 14th, 1920, till June 14th. 1922.