WORK AND WAGES.
CARTERS' AND CURRIERS' AWARDS. By Telegraph—Press Association. Christchurch, Last Night. The award of the Arbitration Court in the dispute between the Drivers' Union and the Christchurch City Council provides that a week's work should be 40 hours in the case of a driver driving and attending to one horse, and 51 hours in the case of driving and attending to two horses. The wages of one-horse drivers are not to be less than 49s per week, and two horses 51s per week, overtime to be paid not less than Is M per hour except in attending on horses, when the rate is Is l»/ 2 d. Work done between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. is to be paid for at 2s per hour, with a minimum of 4s. Preference of employment is to be given to members of the union.
In the curriers' dispute the hours were fixed at 48 per week, and wages at Is 3d per hour. Employers may arrange with the worker to do work as piece work when the log has been agreed upon by the union. There is also a qualified preference to unionists.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 230, 27 March 1912, Page 5
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192WORK AND WAGES. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 230, 27 March 1912, Page 5
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