CLAUSE 13: PORT LABOUR KEPT OR REMAINING IDLE

1. Advice as to the particulars of port labour required must be furnished to Management by 14.00 hours for third shift working on the same day and for the first and second shifts working for the following day.

2. The only times for which port labour may be ordered are for work starting at the following times:-

Monday to Fridays - 0700 hours, 1445 hours and 2215 hours

Saturdays, Sundays &

Public Holidays - 0700 hours

3. If port labour, after being ordered for the purpose of handling imports, exports, trans-shipments or baggage is kept or has to remain idle for any reason whatsoever, except as provided for elsewhere in this Tariff, charges shall be raised, subject to a minimum of 2 hours, for each of the categories of staff or labour at hire rates as set out in Clause 11.

Provided that where port labour is kept or has to remain idle through direct action of port management alone, charges under this item may not be raised.

4. In this Clause the term:-

"Port labour" shall include baggage gangs, shore-handling gangs, lighterage gangs, stevedoring gangs and any other port labour that may be hired.

 

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