WORK AND WAGES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 230, 17 February 1913, Page 3

WORK AND WAGES.

DrS'KDIX GROCERS' AWARD. By Telegraph—Press Association. Dunedin, Saturday. The Arbitration Court lias made an award in the grocers' dispute, in terms of an agreement arrived at between the parlies. Tin. minimum rate of wages to he paid is as follows:—From 15 to 111 years. Ids per week; from 1(5 to 17, from 17s to 18s, £1: from IS to 10. £1 ss: from' lit to 20. £1 15s: from •20 to 21. £*2: from 21 to 22. £2 ss; from 22 upwards, £2 Ids. The minimum to he paid to drivers of 22 years and upwards shall he £2 10s per week and drivers under 22 shall he paid according to the scale prescribed for assistants under the age of 22 years. No voutli under lti years of age shall be employed in driving, but an assistant niiiv act as a driver or a driver as an assistant. The award shall come into force as from February 1 and continue until .'lnly 1. 1915. The president of the Court has attached the following memorandum:--"Provisions of clause 10 are not to come into force until there bar- been an amendment of the law with regard to working overtime. As both employers and workers appear .to lie navcci that the provisions of the Shops pud Offices Act, 1010, on the subject are unnecessarily strict and vexatious, it js reasonable to suppose that the law 'will be altered at an early date, and that clause 10 will be inserted at the request of the parties, so that; employers may fret the benefit of the alteration as soon as possible." Clause 10 reads:—"The. following provisions shall come into force if and whenever the law shall be amended. so that it shall be lawful to insert in any award provision: (a) Any employer may require assistants or any of them to work without additional pay for two hours each night for three evenings a wck in each of three weeks immediatclv preceding Christmas Day and for three hours on the Thursday before Good Friday."