DRIVERS’ WAGES.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 April 1921, Page 7

DRIVERS’ WAGES.

A DOMINION AWARD. NEW RATES ANNOUNCED. Dunedin; April 13. The decision of the Conciliation Council has been accepted as a settlement of the drivers’ dispute for the Dominion. The hours have been fixed at 49| per week, viz., nine hours on five days and •four and a half hours on the day of the weekly half-holiday. All stable work done in excess of such hours, up to four hours per week, in the ease of onehorse drivers, and eight hours in the case of two-horse drivers, shall be paid for at the rate of Is 7d per hour; attendance on motor vehicles up to four hours per week Is 8d per hour; all stable work and attendance on motor vehicles to be paid for at ordinary overtime. rates.

The minimum wages of workers have bqen fixed thus:—For those driving and attending one horse, £3 15s per week; driving or attending two or more horses £3 17s 6d; driving and attending to motor vehicles, with a carrying capacity of from scwt. to one ton £3 18s; driving and attending to motor vehicles of from one ton up to two tons £4; driving and attending motor vehicles from two to three tons £4 3s; driving and attending motor vehicles of more than three tons £4 6s 6d.

In addition, a bonus of ten shillings is to be paid. Overtime for horse drivers is 2s -3d per hour, and between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. three shillings per hour; motor drivers 2s 4d, and over two tons 2s Gd. Drivers ordered back to work after the tea hour shall be paid a minimum of two hours pay and for work done on Sundays, Christmas Day, or Good Friday drivers’ pay will be 3s Id pel - hour. On any other holiday overtime pay will be 2s 3d per hour. The hours of work for drivers employed by aerated water and cordial makers have been nxed at 52 hours per week from November to April, inclusive, and 44 from May to October. Casual horse-drivers are to receive Is lid per hour for one horse and 2s Id for two or more horses, with overtime at 3s per hour. Casual drivers are to receive a minimum of four hours’ pay for work done on Sundays, Christmas Day, or Good Friday, and the rate of pay is four shillings per hour. Youths’ pay is— Eighteen to nineteen years, £2; nineteen to twenty, £2 6s; twenty to twenty-one, £2 14s; with overtime at Is 6£d per hour. Bakers may employ youths above the age of eighteen at the folloXving rates— Under eighteen, £1 Is and found, or £1 14s per week; eighteen to nineteen, £1 17s 6d and found, or £2 per week; nineteen to twenty, £1 Ils and found, or £2 6s; twenty to twenty-one, £1 19s and found, or £2 14s.