DEFENCE WORK

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20910, 15 September 1939, Page 2

DEFENCE WORK

HOURS & WAGES SETTLED SPECIAL CONDITIONS PROVIDED EXTRA ALLOWANCE FOR SHIFTS (By Telegraph.—press Association) CHRISTCHURCH. Thursday “The vexed question relating ’to hours, wages and overtime in connection with work of a military nature has now been settled, and the following conditions have been issued under authority of the Hon. P. C. Webb, Minister* of Labour, and the Hon. R. Semple. Minister of Public Works. They will probably be gazetted today,” said Mr Sutcliffe, of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters’ Union. ‘ The union, by obtaining these conditions, has with the exception of double time probably secured intact the conditions obtaining in the Carpenters and Joiners’ Award.” The agreement provides in connection with emergency defence works — the establishment of military camps, aerodromes, road works or the erection of stores—that the provisions of awards or agreements in respect of extended hours of work are to be suspended, subject to the following conditions:— (i) If three shifts are being worked a day, the workers shall receive in addition to their ordinary wages an allowance of 3s a shift, and 2s a shift where two shifts are being worked. Shifts shall be rotated. (2; All proposed arrangements for shift work by the Public Works Department and contractors must be telegraphed by district engineers for the approval of the Minister of Public Works. (3) If more than 8 hours are worked on any day, overtime rates must b« paid. (4j All time worked on Saturday shall be paid for at time and a-half. (5 ; Excepting as above, all extended hours of work shall be paid for at the rate and subject to the conditions for extended hours provided in awards or agreements, but not less than time and a-half. Any travelling time outside ordinary hours to be paid for at ordinary rates, and not overtime rates.