CONCILIATION BOARD.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8919, 12 September 1907, Page 2

CONCILIATION BOARD.

Per Press Association. Wellington, September 11

Tho recommendations of tho Conciliation Board for tho settlement of the dispute in tho baking trade affecting the industrial district of Wellington are 48 hours per week — S)4 on each of five working days, and 5)4 on the weekly half-holiday. Work is not to begin earlier than 4 a.m, except on exceptional specified occasions following holidays. The minimum wages throughout the district to be :—Foreman £3 6s per week, any man except foreman working an oven £3, others £3 10s; jobbers 11s a day, with a minimum of half a day; all employees to receive “dry pay.” When an employee is substantially engaged in a bakehouse he shall not commence work earlier tfian’the hour prescribed above. Overtime rates: Time and a quarter from Ito 4 p.m., time and a half from 4 to 10 p.m., no work to be done between 10 p.m. and midnight. To apprentices, overtime shall bo 9d per hour for the first year, and thereafter Is per hour. Double time payment is to be paid for all work between midnight and the regular hour for commencing work; on holidays time and a half. Christmas Day, Good Friday, and Sundays, double time, in addition to the regular wages. The usual clauses are added regarding apprentices, under-rate workers and preference to unionists.