WORK AND WAGES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 262, 3 April 1914, Page 2

WORK AND WAGES.

SLAUGHTERMEN'S AG KEEMEXT. By Telegrapb.—Prcss Association. • Dunedin, Wednesday. An agreement has been filed between the Otago Slaughtermens' Industrial Union of Workers and W. Kerr and Co., of the Dune-din abbatoirs. It sets out that a week's work shall not exceed 48 hours. Minimum wages shall be, slaughtermen £", 10s per week; assistant slaughtermen and men employed pithing cattle, £2 10s. When an assistant slaughterman shall have worked two years beyond the boy's and youth's limit, then he shall be paid not less than £3 10s; casual slaughtermen shall be paid not less than 12s per day of .eight hours; if employed by the week, casual hands slial! be paid not less than £3 10s per week of 48 hours. Boys and youths may be employed at the discretion of the employer, provided that the following rates of wages be paid: .lietween 14 and 15 years 12s per week; 15 and 10 years, 15s; IB and 17 years 18s; 17 and 18 years XI; 18 and lit years £1 .is; !!) and 20 years £1 10s; 20 and 21 years £1 15s; proportion of boys and youth* to slaughtermen to be one to three, or fraction of three. Overtime shall be paid for at the rate of time and-a quarter for the lirst two hours, and time and a half afterwards. Holidays are provided for, and during hot weather, when it is necessary to kill on Sundays, time and a half shall bo paid. Clauses covering preference, ''no discrimination," and under-rate workers are also inserted. The agreement is to come into force on April 1, and continue in force till March 31, 11)17.