BOOT OPERATIVES’ AWARD

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 196, 8 November 1927, Page 9

BOOT OPERATIVES’ AWARD

TERM LIMITED TO ONE YEAR

(Special to THE SUN.) WELLINGTON, To-day. As the result of a compromise between the members of the Arbitration Court, the Dominion award for male and female boot operatives has been limited in operation to one year. It provides a 44-hour week, the minimum rate of pay not to be less than 2s OJd per hour. The wage in every case is to be an hourly one, and, except where otherwise provided, a worker shall be entitled to be paid only for the time actually worked. Overtime is to be paid for at the rate of time and a-half for the first four hours, double time afterwards. The award, which comes into force on November 21, 1927, contains clauses relating to machinery, subdivision of labour, piecework, intermittent time, employment of boys, industrial agreements and disputes committee. In regard to female operatives, a 44-hour week is provided for, and the minimum wage of females having served five years and upwards is to be <£2 10s per week, computed by the hour. The rate for hot-wax thread machinists is £ 217 s per week.

Following are the minimum rates of wages for assistants:—First year, 15s; second year, £1 Is; third year, £1 6s> fourth year, £1 lls; fifth year, £1 16s. Where an assistant is employed on hot-thread machines, she is to receive an addition of 10 per cent, to these rates. Provisions dealing with similar aspects of the industry referred to in the male operatives’ award are included.