1572
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
[No. 43

Government Service Tribunal Act, 1948.—Principal Order No. 4

In the matter of section 8 of the Government Service Tribunal Act, 1948,
and in the matter of an application for a principal order dated the 1st day
of July, 1949, and duly lodged by the New Zealand Workers’ Industrial
Union of Workers.

THE Government Service Tribunal, having heard and considered the
application of the applicant, doth hereby order that the following provisions
shall take effect on and from the dates respectively therein set out in
clause 1:—

1. APPLICATION OF ORDER

(a) This order shall apply to workers of the State Forest Service
who are engaged in the establishment, maintenance, silviculture, and
management of exotic forests and in cruising, reconnaissance, survey, and
management of indigenous forests.

(b) This order shall not apply to workers normally engaged in utilization
of exotic and indigenous forests, including the felling, cutting, extraction,
removal, conversion, manufacture, or transport of timber, forest produce,
or finished products for commercial purposes.

(c) For the purposes of this order the term “worker” shall be limited
to a worker engaged under the provisions of Public Service Regulation 150.

(d) This order, with the exception of clause 10, shall be deemed to have
come into force on the 1st day of April, 1949.

(e) Clause 10 shall be deemed to have come into force on the 1st day of
July, 1948.

2. HOURS OF WORK : GENERAL WORKERS

(a) Subject to the provisions of clauses 3 and 5 hereof, the ordinary
hours of work shall be forty a week and eight a day, and, subject to the
provisions of subclause (c) below and clauses 3, 4, and 21 hereof, shall be
worked between 7.30 a.m. and 5 p.m. on Mondays to Fridays inclusive.

(b) A rest period of ten minutes shall be allowed every morning and
afternoon.

(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of subclause (a) above, at such
forests as may be approved by the conservator of forests, workers may by
majority decision observe any week-day as a “day-off” for shopping
purposes, and work on the next succeeding Saturday, which shall then be
deemed to be an ordinary working day. The union representative shall
give the officer in charge not less than seven days’ notice of such desired
change.

(d) Notwithstanding the provisions of subclause (a) above, forest
caretakers, lookouts, and patrolmen shall be available for duty at any time.

3. HOURS OF WORK : DRIVERS AND OPERATORS

(a) Notwithstanding the provisions of clause 2 hereof, the ordinary
hours of work shall be 42½ a week and 8½ a day (including necessary
attendance to motor-vehicles, machines, or horses) and, subject to the
provisions of clause 4 hereof, shall be worked between 7 a.m. and 5.30 p.m.
on Mondays to Fridays inclusive: Provided that where necessary a
9-hour day may be worked at ordinary time rate when not more than 42½
hours are worked in that week.

(b) Where a driver or operator is working an 8-hour day only, because
he lives in a town and travels considerable distance to and from work in a
conveyance with other workers (and the transport time-table does not
permit his working an 8½-hour day), the following shall apply:

(i) If the worker declines to occupy accommodation on the work, he
shall be paid for time actually worked and not his full weekly
wage. E.g., if he works only 40 hours a week, he shall be paid
weekly wage × 40 ; but
42½

(ii) If accommodation is not available on the work, the worker shall be
paid his full weekly wage.

4. SHIFT-WORK

(a) Notwithstanding the provisions of clauses 2 and 3 hereof, shifts may
be worked at any time as required by the officer in charge.

(b) Subject to the provisions of clause 5 hereof, eight hours (eight and a
half hours in the case of drivers or operators), inclusive of half an hour for
crib, shall constitute a day’s work where two or three shifts are being worked.

(c) Shift-workers shall be paid an allowance of 2s. 6d. a shift, provided
that where shifts are not rotated the allowance shall not be paid to the day
shift-workers.

5. WET PLACES

(a) Notwithstanding the provisions of clauses 2 and 4 hereof, in all
“wet places” six hours shall be deemed a working day, and such hours
shall be paid for at time and one-third rate.