CONCILIATION COUNCIL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 317, 31 May 1913, Page 6

CONCILIATION COUNCIL.

TARANAKI PAINTERS AND DECORATORS. INDUSTRIAL DISPUTE. THE RECOMMENDATIONS. The sittings of the Conciliation Council in the Taranaki painters and decorators dispute were concluded yesterday morning, Mr. Harle-Giles, Conciliation Commissioner, presiding. The following recommendation will, be filed on June 28th:— , MINIMUM RATE OF WAGES'.' J "" 1. All journeymen painters, paperhangers, glaziers, grainers, decorators, and all other journeymen, excepting signwriters, working at any branch of the trade (except those hereinafter provided) shall be paid not less than Is 3d per hour. ; • HOURS OF LABOR. ?. Tlie hours of labor for a'll journeymen and apprentices employed at any branch of the, trade shall be from 8 a.m.; to 5 p.m. on five days of the week, and from 8 a.m .to noon on Saturdays, from ; the Ist day of September to the 30th day of April (both inclusive), oile liourto be allowed each day for dinner (Saturdays excepted), and from the Ist'day, ; - of May.to the 31st day of August (both inclusive) the hours of labor shall be - from 8 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. on five days :of the week, and from 8 a.m. to noon on Saturdays, half an hour to be allowedeach day for dinner (Saturdays excepted). • HOLIDAYS. 3. No work shall be done on Sundays,, Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year's . Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Labor Day, and day of Painters' Annual Picnic, or before or after the hours specified in elause 2 hereof. PAYMENT OF WAGES. 4. All "wages shall be paid weekly or fortnightly on Friday or Saturday, either on the job or at the employer's place of business for town or suburban work, but wherever paid, payment shall commence within fifteen minutes after leaving off work. Workers employed on country jobs may make mutual arrangements with their employers in respect to the ! time and method of paying wages. APPRENTICES. . 5. The number of apprentices shall he,J

limited to one to every three journeymen or fraction of three. 6. The period of apprenticeship shall j be five years. 7. An employer before taking a youth as an apprentice shall be entitled to engage him for three months on probation. If at the end of such time the youth becomes apprenticed, such period of three months' shall be reckoned as part of his period of apprenticeship. 8. An employer on taking an apprentice shall give notice thereof, and the name of the apprentice, to the Inspector of Factories within one week after' the period of probation, and an employer transferring an apprentice to another employer shall also, within one week thereof, give notice of such transfer to such Inspector. 9. The wages to be paid to apprentices shall be as follows:—During the first year of their apprenticeship, not less than 10s per week; during the second year, not less than 15s per week; during the third year, not less than 20s per week; during the fourth year, not less than £1 5s per week; during the fifth year not less than £1 10s per week. When employed upon eountrv work the apprentice shall be paid such Wages for all overtime worked as may be agreed upon, but not less than the rates herein mentioned, and shall also be then provided with food and sleeping accommodation by the employer free of cost. , 10. Any employer taking an apprentice to learn the trade shall be deemed to undertake the duty which he agrees to perform as a duty enforceable under this The obligation of the apprentice, to serve his employer shall also be a .dirty enforceable under this award. 11. At the end of the period of apprenticeship the employer shall give the apprentice a certificate to show that he has served his apprenticeship. Should the employer at any time before the termination of the apprenticeship wish for any valid reason to dispense with the services of the apprentice he shall give him a certificate for the time served'and procure him another employer carrying on business within a reasonable distance of the original employer's place of business, who shall continue to teach the apprentice, pay him the rates prescribed in this award according to the length of time he has served, and generally to perform the obligations of the original employer; provided that it shall not be obligatory on the employer to find the apprentice another employer if lie shall so misconduct himself as to entitle the employer to discharge him, but the employer, shall give the apprentice a certificate covering the time actually serVed. 12. When the apprentice is discharged fur a cause, the employer shall send notice of the discharge and the cause thereof to the Inspector of Factories. 13. An employer shall not be deemed to have discharged his dutv to his apI prentice if he fails to keep him at work

owing to slackness of trade, but such slackness may from a proper ground for transferring him to an employer willing . to undertake the responsibility of toaehing him. All time lost by an apprentice through sickness or default may be deducted from Jiis wages. 14. Existing arrangements with and relating to indentured apprentices no\T serving an employer may continue, provided that any employer wishing such arrangements to continue shall' forward the names of his present apprentices to the Inspector of Factories within one month after the filing of this award. 35. Existing arrangements with and relating to apprentices now serving an employer may continue, providing that any employer wishing such -arrangements to continue shall forward in writing the names of the apprentices and the conditions of their apprenticeship now existing to the Inspector of Factories for the district. This clause shall only apply to apprentices who have been in their employer's service prior to May 2Sth 1!)13. COUNTRY WORK. 10. "Country work" means work performed by a worker 1 which necessitates his lodging elsewhere than at his usual place of' residence. 17. Any journeyman employed upon country work shall be conveyed by his employer to. and from work free of charge, or his expenses going to and returning from such work shall be paid by such employer, but once only during the continuance of the work, if such work is continuous, end the journeyman or apprentice is not in the meantime recalled by his employer. An apprentice when .engaged in country work shall, in addition to his travelling expenses, be provided with suitable board and lodging at the employer's..cost. 18. Any journeyman working on country work shall be allowed to work any hours that may be mutually agreed upon between employer and employee, provided that not less than Is 4y 2 d per hour is paid for such time worked and an ad- ; ditional allowance of Is Od per day for all working days . INCOMPETENT WORKMEN. 19. Any journeyman who considers him&elf not capable of earning the minimum wage may be paid such less wages as shall from time to time be agreed upon in writing between such journeyman and the chairman and the secretary of the union, and in default of such agreement within twenty-four hours after such journeyman has applied in writing to the secretary of the union stating his desire that such wage shall be so agreed upon, as shall be fixed in writing by the Inspector of Awards for the industrial district upon the application of such journeyman after twentyfour hours' notice in writing to the secretary of the union, who shall if desired by him, be heard by such Inspector on such application. Such -permit shall be for such period, not exceeding six months, as such persons shall determine. Provided that in the case of any person whose wage- is so fixed -by reason of old age or permanent disability it may boxed ior.such longer period as such persons may think fifc. ; - ■ BRUSHWARE. 20. Employers shall provide all brush-' wtive, except duster and, paperhangers' laying-on brush, and shall also supply apprentices with one set of tools durin" their term of apprenticeship. ° suburban Work. ■5 21. Work done over two miles from the Post Office of the district, but which does not come within the definition of couptry work, shall be considered suburban work, and journeymen and apprentices employed thereon shall be allowed and paid for time reasonably occupied by them in walking from the employer's T.plitee of'business to and from such work, pi; they shall be conveyed to and from sufill work at the cost of their employer. riHalf a«l hour to be allowed for such walking by the worker, or conveying by the employer, before any travel-: ling time shall be payable, 22. Workers shall be at their employplace of business~at'"the hour appointed for . the commencing of work . Mt. if previously required to do so they shall proceed direct to the place appointed for the commencement of work. PIECEWORK. ,23. No journeyman shall be allowed to,'perform piecework. .24. When any worker, engages in any branch of the trade on his own account > covered by this he'shall cease to belong to the Tar j ana.ki Painters' aiicf Decorators' Industrial 'tTnibn of Workers, and shall not be re-<adffuti!ed a member until after the expi'raitftn of' three months from the completion of his last job. . PREFERENCE - ■ 25. If any employer shall hereafter engage any worker who shall not be a imember of the union, and who one week after his engagement shall not become and remain a, member> of the union, 'tlie' employer shall dismiss such worker from his service if reiijiU'sted to do so by the union, piwided there is then a member of the .union equally qualified to perform the particular work required to be done, .and ready and willing to undertake the f»Me. 20. Whenever an employer shall employ any worker who is not a member of the union he shall within forty-eight hours thereafter give no^ipe..in -.writing*of such employment'to the secretary of the union. 27. The provisions of the foregoing clause shall operate only if and so long as the rules of the union shall permit any journeyman, painter and paperhanger of good character and sober habits to become a member of the union upon payment of an entrance fee not exceeding ss, upon a written or verbal', application, without ballot or other election, and to continue a member upon payment of subsequent contributions not exceeding (id per-week. —'' •' " 28. It shall be the duty of everv nonunionist to join the union when called upon to do so by the secretary. SCOPE OF AWARD. 29. This Award shall applv to all employers carving on business in the Taranaki Industrial District. TERM OF AWARD. 30. One year. COMPLIMENTARY. After the competition of the business Mr. C. W. Hooker, on behalf of the union assessors, moved that a hearty vote of thanks be accorded Mr. Giles tor his courtesy and consideration Mr I' r - R eUringer seconded this on beha.it of the employers; and Mr. Giles returned thanks.