PRINTING TRADES AWARD

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 930, 25 March 1930, Page 11

PRINTING TRADES AWARD

WOMEN’S RATES ALTERED Press Association WELLINGTON, Monday. Tlie award of the Arbitration Court in the New Zealand related printing trades dispute was Issued today, the only change from the old award mg in the rates for women workers, which are slightly increased. The new rates for female workers arc as follows, the old rates being given in parentheses: —First six months. .4.'1 (19s 6d): second six months. £1 2 (£1 3s 6d): second year, cl Ss 6d (€1 7s); third year, £1 15s (£1 12s > fourth vear, £2 2s (£1 17s): fifth year, £2 10s (£2 9s 6d); thereal’tei £2 16s (£2 15s 6d>. Clauses in the new award relating to ferns e workerare not to operate within 10 miles ol Auckland and Wellington chief post offices. Letterpress machinists, bookbinder.-, paper rulers, lithographic machinists and others in class 2 (cities and towns with population over 6,000) receive £ •'* 2s 6d. and class 2 (population 6,000 and under) £4 15s. Cutters, £3 the first year, rising by 10s annually to the fourth year, and then to £6 2s 6d: rates in ''hiss 2 being 7s below those rates. R—tes for rotary machinists, stereotypers and flat-bed machinists are unchanged at £5 2s 6d, with £4 os for assistants. The junior rates are also as before.

A new provision is the payment for work on Saturday night special editions, which is to bo at the rate of 3s 9d an hour, or at piece rates at the option of the employer, with a minimum of 7s 6d, including tea money. Workers who are usually employed as pieceworkers shall be paid on the basis of the average hourly output, or at the rate of 5s an hour, with a minimum of 10s instead of tea money.