Engine Drivers’ Award
WAGES AND HOURS FIXED Per Press AssociationWELLINGTON, Last Night. At to-day’s hearing of the engine drivers’ dispute by the Conciliation Council, an agreement was reached on wages and hours. It was agreed that the statutory holidays for factory workers would be in accordance with the Factories Act and that other workers would observe the conditions in the establishment where they wore employed. Men regularly employed ou shirt work are to have two weeks' holiday a year ou full pay and others one week. Engine-drivers requiring a first-class certificate were to be paid £5 5s a week, workers with a second-class certificate £5, and uncertificated workers £4 15*, all to receive 14 days' holiday a year on full pay. Two shillings a day was to be allowed for getting up steam. Special rates for county council employees ranged from £1 Is a day for drivers of traction ongines and steam road-rollers to 18s 0d a day for winch drivers.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 42, 19 February 1937, Page 6
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161Engine Drivers’ Award Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 42, 19 February 1937, Page 6
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