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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 79

Poverty Bay Bakers and Pastrycooks.—Notice of Recommendation of Conciliation Council.

MEMORANDUM of agreement made this 13th day of September, 1912, between the Auckland Operative Bakers and Pastrycooks’ Industrial Union of Workers (Gisborne Branch) and Clare and Sons and other employers.

RECOMMENDATION.

Hours of Work.

1. (a.) The hours of work for bakers and pastrycooks shall not exceed forty-eight in any one week.

(b.) Subject to the special provisions hereinafter contained, the daily hours of work shall be regulated by each employer from time to time according to the requirements of his business, but so that any time worked in excess of nine hours on the first five working-days of the week and ten hours on Saturdays by any worker shall be reckoned and paid for as overtime, whether or not such worker shall have worked forty-eight hours in that week.

(c.) The hour for starting work shall be not earlier than 4 o’clock a.m. except on Saturdays and the day immediately preceding a public holiday, when it may be one hour earlier—namely 3 o’clock a.m. In the event of a double holiday work may commence two hours earlier—namely, 2 o’clock a.m. Where employers have country deliveries or have to forward bread by country coaches, they may start work at 3.30 a.m.

(d.) No workman shall work longer than four hours and a half without a meal, and that half an hour shall be allowed for same.

(e.) Time for sponging and doughing to be deducted from the day’s work, not less than one hour to be allowed for same.

Wages.

2. (a.) The minimum wages for journeyman bakers and pastrycooks shall be as follows: Foreman, £3 5s. per week; other hands, £2 15s. per week.

(b.) All time lost by a worker through his own default without personal misconduct shall be deducted pro rata from his wages for that week.

(c.) All time lost by any worker through his personal misconduct may be deducted from his wages at the rate of time and a quarter.

(d.) A jobber shall be paid at the rate of not less than 10s. per day of eight hours. He shall be paid not less than a half-day’s wages in any event. If he is employed for more than four hours he shall be paid not less than 1s. 3d. per hour up to the full day of eight hours, and after that he shall be paid overtime at the rates mentioned in clause 3 hereof.

(e.) When the employer is himself substantially engaged in doing the actual work of a foreman in his own bakehouse he shall be classed as such, and he shall take an equal share of sponging with his men, or if he elects not to do sponging he shall pay the worker who does it for his time. That no man be later in the bakehouse than 8 p.m. for the purpose of sponging.

Overtime.

3. (a.) Overtime shall be paid as follows: Foreman at the rate of 2s. per hour; journeyman at the rate of 1s. 6d. per hour, till 10 p.m.; all work to cease between 10 and 12 p.m.

(b.) If any employer shall require any of his workers to start work at an earlier hour than that prescribed in clause 1, subclause (c) hereof, he shall pay such worker overtime at the rate of double time for all time worked between midnight and the hour prescribed for starting work, and such overtime shall be paid notwithstanding a full day’s work shall not be worked by the particular worker who is so required to start work at such earlier hour. If a jobber is required to work at an earlier hour than the hours prescribed in clause 1, subclause (c) hereof, he shall be paid double time for any time worked between midnight and such prescribed hours.