BUTTER FACTORIES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24403, 14 September 1940, Page 13

BUTTER FACTORIES

MANAGERS' RATES OF PAY NKW AWARD ANNOUNCED The minimum yearly ratessof wages under the Otago and Southland butter factory managers' award, which has been issued by the Court of Arbitration, have been fixed as follows: Under 100 tons, £275 per annum; 100 to 600 tons, 6s every additional ton; 601 to 1000 tons, 4s; 1001 to 2000 tons, 2s; 2001 to 3000 tons, 6d; and thereafter by mutual arrangements. All rates of remuneration, including time and piece wages and overtime and other special payments, shall be subject to the provisions of the General Order granting a 5 per cent, increase. The only question left for the court to decide was that of wages. The other clauses in the award were settled in Conciliation Council or agreed to at the court hearing. Disagreement with the decision of the majority of the court in regard to, the scale of wages is expressed by Mr A. L. Monteith, employees' representative, as follows: "These wages are less than in Westland, Nelson and Marlborough, and here cover only eight factories. In Otago, Southland and Canterbury these factories, with one exception, have to rework and pat butter purchased outside the factory, and to ;iay on a scale of output where «uch work is not taken into consideration is to grade a man, for the purposes of payment, below what the increased work merits."