CONCILIATION COUNCIL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 203, 28 July 1937, Page 14

CONCILIATION COUNCIL.

LOCAL BODIES AWARD. COMPLETE AGREEMENT. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, July 27. Complete agreement was reached in Conciliation Council, when terms for an award to cover borough council, county council and other local body employees were discussed at an adjourned meeting of representatives of the Auckland provincial district Local Authorities’ Officers’ Union and employers. The Conciliation Commissioner, Mr R. E. Price, presided. A 40-hour week was generally agreed upon except in the case of employees engaged on essential services. Wages were fixed on the scale of clerical workers’ awards in other centres, starting at £l. An additional 2s 6d a week was granted for the lust year of service, making the rates £5 7s Cd for men and £2 7s 6d for women employees. Overtime -was fixed at th® rate of time and a half for the first four hours and double time thereafter, except in the paee of employees receiving over per annum. One week's annual holiday was grunted, in addition to statutory holidays, and two extra days, provision being made for continuance of the previous period of annual holiiays where it was longer than one iveek. The award will operate for one year from August 2.