NO SIX-DAY WEEK
MILK ROUNDSMEN’S NEW AWARD NO WAGE CONCESSIONS The Milk Roundsmen’s Award, which has just been filed by the Arbitration Court ts modelled upon the lines of the old award and the men's demands, so strenuously advocated in the court recently, have been rejected entirely. THE application for a six-day week was rejected, the starting time was left at 3 a.m. instead of 4 a.m. as asked for. and the desired increase in wages was not granted, the weekly figure of £4 6s being left in the award. An employer, it is provided, may agree with his workers to work a sixday week, and in such event the rates of wages and commission and the holiday allowance shall be agreed upon between the employer and the union. The award is to operate for two years from May 13, 1929. Mr. A. L. Monteith, the workers’ representative on the court, disagreed with the majority of the court, and in- a short note, said: “I think a six-day week is desirable. I do not think £4 6s adequate for a seven-day week of 4S hours, with a 3 a.m. start.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 657, 8 May 1929, Page 11
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190NO SIX-DAY WEEK Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 657, 8 May 1929, Page 11
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