SUGAR WORKERS.
THE NEW AGREEMENT. FORTY-FOUR HOUR WEEK, By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. The sugar workers’ award retains the 44-hour week and overtime at the rate! of time and a half for the first three hours and double time thereafter. Wages < range from £4 to £5 a week. In a memorandum the Court says the existing award is slightly modified, and as the wages are slightly under the rates for similar work it has increased the bonus by 2s all round. A request by the company to increase the hours of firemen engaged in char-burning without the payment of overtime has been refused, as only#>ne fireman is affected per week, and the Court is of opinion that overtime should be paid if the company reaped the benefit of a larger output. It had been asserted by the union last year that the production by 48 hours would be maintained in a 44-hour week, but the evidence showed that this was not maintained, but as there was reason to believe that circumstances beyond the control of tne workers may have had a bearing on the result the system will be given further trial. The currency of the award is two years.
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 July 1921, Page 5
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201SUGAR WORKERS. Taranaki Daily News, 13 July 1921, Page 5
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