LONG HOURS IN DAIRY.
ALLEGED CASE IN DUNEDIN. GIRL CLASSED AS MANAGERESS. (Per Press Association). DUNEDIN, This Day. In reply to an invitation from the Prime! Minister to give specific cases of alleged injustice to workers through the cancellation of compulsory arbitration, the secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Shop Assistants cites the case of a girl aged 16, employed in a Dunedin dairy shop, working 10 hours daily for five days without a meal hour, 13 hours on Friday and three hours on Sunday. The case has been reported to the local Labour Department, and the officer informed the Union that no action was possible as the assistant had been constituted a manageress.
It was stated that there were many similar cases in Dunedin, where such girls were defined as manageresses.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 127, 11 March 1935, Page 6
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