BUILDING TRADES LABOURERS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8463, 13 June 1907, Page 5

BUILDING TRADES LABOURERS.

By Telegraph—Press Association. WELLINGTON, June 12. This afternoon the Wellington Conciliation Board filed its recommendations in the Wellington building trades labourers dispute. The Board recommends that 45 hours shall constitute a week's work, and not more than three and three-quar-ter hours to be worked on Saturdays. On other days the working hours shall be between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., but in May, June, July and August, any employer may require his men to commence work at 7.45 a.m., with only half-an-hour for dinner. At other times three-quarters of an hour shall be allowed. The minimum rate of wages for scaffolders is placed at Is 4d per hour, and workers engaged in any other capacity are to receive not less than Is 2d per hour. Overtime is to be paid at the rate of time and a-half until 9 p.m., and at double rates thereafter Youths are to be employed in the proportion of one to every four fullypaid labourers. Preference to Unionists is conceded.

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