ARBITRATION COURT

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12613, 25 November 1926, Page 3

ARBITRATION COURT

AWARD FOR OIL WORKERS The "Wellington Industrial District Oil Stores Employees* Award has been filed by the Court of Arbitration. The parties to the award are: The British Imperial Oil Co., N.Z., Ltd.; Combined Buyers, Ltd.; A. S. Paterson and Co., Ltd.; W. H. Simms and Sons, Ltd. ; The Texas Company (Australasia), Ltd.; and the Vacuum Oil Co., Pty., Ltd. The award provides for a 44-hour week. Subjects to provisions relating to shift work, the rate of wages is: Permanent hands. £4 7s 6d per week; casual hands, 2s 2d per hour. Youths mav be employed at not less than the following rates: 18 years and under, £2 a week; ID years and under, £2 10s a week: 20 years and under, £3 a week. The proportion of youths is not to ho more than one to every four adult workers, and when called upooi to do stacking of case oils or any other article of a weight of 751 b or over are to be paid adult rates. All permanent hands after twelve months’ continuous service are entitled to an annual holiday of one week on full pay. All work done on Sundays, Anzac Dav, Good Friday, or Christmas Day is to fe paid for at double rates, and on any other specified holiday at the rate of time and a half. When shifts are worked, eight hours shall consist the shift, and 48 hours’ the -week’s work, for which navment shall be made at the into of £4 IDs 6d a week.