NEW AWARD

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10614, 12 June 1920, Page 8

NEW AWARD

GARPHNTERS AND JOINERS. HOURS AND WAGES IN HAWKE’S BAY DISTRICT. Tho Arbitration Court award in the case of the Amalgamated Society ot Carpenters’ and Joiners’ dispute (Hawke’s Kay) has been filed. Hours are fixed, on tho H-hour week basis, five days of eight hours each, and four hours <wi Saturday. No worker shall bo required to work more than sis hours continuously without a meal. Tho 'minimum wage for journeymen carpenters, joiners and joiners’ machinists is fixed at Us per hour, plus a bonus of 3d per hour On all outside jobs tho worker responsible for carrying out tho work and lor giving instructions to other workers, shall bo paid not less than Is a day extra. Extra pay is also provided for work under certain conditions, such as 50 per cent, higher rates for insulation work, where tho air is impregnated with dust, or where tho temperature is 40 degrees or less, and 3d per hour extra for demolition work. All overtime is to bo remunerated at the rate of double time. Piecework is prohibited and sublotting, labour only. It shall bo a broach of the award for any employer to sublot any work, coming within tho soopo of tho award on a labour-only basis, amd jany worker taking such work shall iho guilty of a breach. Work taken on a labour-only basis is defined as when a worker agrees to do the labour on any job coming within tho scope of this award and who docs not supply the whole of the materials necessary to carry <aa the work. Elaborate provision is made for apprentices lit the following rates of pay: First year, 15s per week; second year, 20s per week; third year, 30s per week; fourth year, 33s per week; fifth year, ,£3 10s per week. During the first throe years of his apprenticeship, tho apprentice must attend technical school or college in carpentry, joinery, and building construction classes. On passing an examination equal to that lor grade 2 of the City and Guilds of London Institute ho shall bo entitled, on the production of hia certificate, to receive not less than 3s per week extra dn the fourth year and 7s fid per week in tho fifth year of his apprenticeship. The proportion ot apprentices to journeymen is fixed at one to every throe or fraction of throe. Provision ia also mado in the award for under-rate workers, for preference to unionists, and exemptions of foremen calrpentens W freezing companies and tho Xfawko’s Bay County Council.

The term of tho award is from May 21th, 1920, to May 24th. 1922.