BAKERS’ AWARD.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 October 1922, Page 3

BAKERS’ AWARD.

HOURS OF WORK. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Oct. 2. The Arbitration Court has issued the bakers and pastrycooks’ award, which is on a Dominion basis except ats to holidays, ’which are subject to local requirements. The hours are 46 per week, as the court believes 44 hours in most cases insufficient for the work to be done. The court has omitted the former restriction of the number of laborers and junior laborers, being of opinion that the nature of the work exercises an automatic restriction. The commencing' age for such is fixed at 18, to encourage apprenticeship. Overtime is standardised at time and a-quarter for the first two hours, and double thereafter. Overtime is payable on wages plus bonuses. Females, other than journeymen, are permitted to perform certain skilled work at two-thirds the journeyman’s rate. Tearooms, which do not sell bakers’ or pastrycooks’ goods for consumption off the premises are excluded from the award. Home-made cake-shops, not employing journeymen, are also excluded. The court considers they should have a separate award. Work is not to start before 4 a.m. except on Saturdays and the day preceding a public holiday, when the st rt is one hour earlier, before double aud triple holidays two and three hours earlier. If country deliveries are made, work starts at 3 a.m. There are special hours and clauses for bakeries in small towns and for pastrycooks, whose day normally begins at 6 a.m. Wages are: Foremen £5 3s, journeymen £4 13s, laborers £3 19s, apprentices £1 7s 6d to £3 ss. The award operates from October 9 for two years. The court has begun the hearing of the dispute in the typographical and related printing trades.