COACHBUILDERS’ AWARD

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1070, 6 September 1930, Page 10

COACHBUILDERS’ AWARD

NEW PROVISIONS MADE Press Association WELLINGTON, Today. The new coachworkers and motor body builders’ award which was issued by the Arbitration Court to-day does not depart materially from the provisions of the expired award, except in regard to assemblers and machinists. The neW award provides that 47 hours shall constitute an ordinary week’s Avork and shall be worked between the hours of 7.30 a.m. and 5.30 p.m. on five days of the week and between 7.30 a.m. and noon on one day' of the week. Wages shall be paid on an hourly basis. The wages of journeymen shall be not less than 2s 3d an hour. The minimum wage for helpers rises from £1 2s 6d a week to £2 17s 6d a week; helpers over 21 years of age, Is lOd an hour. Extra helpers above the number specified may be taken on at not less than Is lOd an hour. The minimum Avage for assemblers shall he as follow:—For the first year. Is lid an hour; and thereaf* r 2s Id an hour. Employers may in factories Avtthin the Wellington industrial district where mass production is carried on employ learner assemblers in the trimming shop, who shall be permitted to tack in ready-cut trimming materials at the following wages: For the first six months, Is lid an hour; second six months. 2s Id an hour; thereafter, 2s 3d an hour. Tn a memorandum to the award Mr. Justice Frazer says: “Tn the present rase a coach and motor body panel beater is regarded as a coacliworker, not as a sheet metal worker. In the j-'ame way as a cabinetmaker is regarded as a furniture worker, not as a carpenter, though he works in wood. Tn anj’’ event, the lapse of time since 1!>25 renders it Impossible for the claim of the Amalgamated Engineering Association to succeed on legal grounds.”