BAKERS DISPUTE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 12 September 1907, Page 2

BAKERS DISPUTE.

CONCILIATION BOARD'S AWARD, Per Press Association. ! ™ „ . Welli »gton, Wednesday. His Conciliation Board to-day filed its recommendations for the settlement of the dispute in the baking trade affecting the industrial district of Wellington. The Board recommends that the working hours be 48 hours per week —8 ! / a on each of, the five full working days and s'/ a on nie weekly half-holiday. Work is not to begin earlier than 4 a.m., except on exceptional special occasions following holidays. The minimum wages recommended are—Foremen, £3 6s per week; any man, except foreman, working an oven, £3; others, £2 10s; jobbers, lis per day, with a minimum of half a day; all employees to receive "dry pay." When an employer is substantially engaged in bakehouse he shall not commence work earlier than the hour proscribed above. Overtime rates—Time and a-quarter f /T L to i p ' m - ; time and tt-Mf f«>m 4 to 10 p.m.; no work to be done between 10 p.m. and mldni'ght. For apprentices overtime payments Bhall be 9d per hour for the flrßt year and thereafter Is per hour. Double time is to bo given for all work between midnight and the regular hour for commencing work; on holidays, time and a-half; on Christmas Day, Good Friday, and Sundays, double time in addition to the regular wage. The usual clauses are added regarding apprentices, under-rate workers, and preference to unionists.